Article ID: CBB000931748

Isotope Research before Isotopy: George Hevesy's Early Radioactivity Research in the Hungarian Context (2009)

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Palló, Gábor (Author)


Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Volume: 29
Pages: 167--190


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of special issue: Isotopes: Science, Technology and Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Language: English

This paper presents a framework for the study of George Hevesy's research in the 1910s by distinguishing two styles of radioactivity research: the analytical (as practiced in Manchester and Vienna to some extent) and the natural historical (as practiced in Hungary). Georg Hevesy's approach combined these two types. Indeed, by studying Hevesy's research in context, I show that the earliest applications of isotopes started in parallel with the establishment of the isotope theory of matter.

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Authors & Contributors
Rentetzi, Maria
Robotti, Nadia
Guerra, Francisco
Wilder, Kelley E.
Weindling, Paul J.
Turda, Marius
Concepts
Physics
Radioactivity
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Radium
Isotopes
Trade
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Vienna (Austria)
Hungary
France
Austria
Yugoslavia
Estonia
Institutions
Cavendish Laboratory
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung, Berlin-Buch
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Solvay Conferences
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Cambridge University
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