Ellen Gleditsch – Norway’s Pioneer of Radiochemistry
Ellen Gleditsch was a Norwegian radiochemist whose career helped shape the early study of radioactivity.
Ellen Gleditsch was a Norwegian radiochemist whose career helped shape the early study of radioactivity.
Harold Urey was an American chemist best known for discovering deuterium and pioneering modern isotope and planetary science.
George de Hevesy was a pioneering chemist whose development of radioactive tracer techniques reshaped modern chemistry, biology, and nuclear medicine.
Arthur Compton discovered the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation, and received a Nobel Prize in physics for his efforts.
Leo Szilard theorised the nuclear chain reaction, which he later demonstrated by working on the creation of Chicago Pile-1.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of induced radioactivity.
Ernest Rutherford is most well known for his gold foil experiment which resulted in a new model for the structure of the atom.
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory made him one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
Albert Einstein is possibly the most famous scientist to ever live. He is most well known for discovering the equivalence between mass and energy.
Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of nuclear fission.