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.
Willard Libby was an American chemist whose development of radiocarbon dating transformed archaeology, geology, and our understanding of the past.
Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist best known for creating the periodic table and transforming our understanding of the elements.
George de Hevesy was a pioneering chemist whose development of radioactive tracer techniques reshaped modern chemistry, biology, and nuclear medicine.
Glenn T. Seaborg was a nuclear chemist who co‑discovered ten transuranium elements, reshaped the periodic table, and won the 1951 Nobel Prize.
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.
Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, received a Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, alongside his wife and Henri Becquerel.
Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of nuclear fission.