The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944
Awarded on: 1944-11-09
"for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
Affiliations:
- Stockholm University – Stockholm, Sweden
George de Hevesy
Born: 1885-08-01 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Gender: male
Field: Hungarian radiochemist (1885–1966)
Biography
George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.