George Hevesy
| Number | B509 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Description | George Hevesy portrait photograph. |
| Remarks | George de Hevesy/ Georg von Hevesy (1885 - 1966) was born in Budapest into an aristocratic Hungarian family of Jewish origin. He gained his doctor’s degree at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1908. In 1910 he went to work for Professor Ernest Rutherford at Manchester. He interrupted early in 1913 his studies to carry out jointly with Frederic Paneth the first radioactive-tracer experiment at the Vienna Institute of Radium Research. In 1915 he was drafted into the Austrian-Hungarian Army. After the war he worked with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen between 1920 and 1926. In 1922 he discovered element number 72 "Hafnium". Thereafter he became professor of Chemistry at Freiburg University. Again fleeing persecution, he returned to Copenhagen in 1936 and remained until 1943, when he fled to Sweden. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1943 and became a Swedish Citizen. |
| Year | 1950 |
| Photographer | Ukendt |
| Archive | Niels Bohr Archive |
