George De Hevesy was a Hungarian chemist born on August 1, 1885. He is best known for his work in radioactivity and his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943. He was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry and his research helped to advance the understanding of isotopes. He also developed a method for tracing the movement of elements in living organisms. His net worth, biography, age, height, family, and career updates are available online.
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A Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate who used radioactive tracers to study the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.
He studied chemistry at the University of Budapest for one year before enrolling in the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg.
He was the first chemist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry after World War II, when the prize was not given for three years.
He had four children with his wife Pia Riis, who he married in 1924.
He is a Jewish Nobel laureate like Fritz Haber.
