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Frederick Soddy
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Frederick Soddy was an English radiochemist who made important discoveries about radioactive elements and their transformations in the early 1900s. His work helped explain how atoms change and decay, which was fundamental to understanding atomic structure and earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921.
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- Science and Life - Aberdeen Adresses
- The Interpretation of the Atom - [Contents
- Money versus man
- Monographs on inorganic and physical chemistry. The Chemistry of the Radio-elements, part II
- Chemistry of the Radio-Elements, Part 1
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1921
“for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes”
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- Given name
- Frederick
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Eastbourne
- Place of death
- Brighton
- Occupation
- researcher
- Employer
- University of Aberdeen
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Ernest Rutherford
- Student of
- Ernest Rutherford
- Field of work
- radiochemistry
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- Frederick Soddy.jpg
- Work location
- Oxford
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- Frederick Soddy
- date of birth
- 1877-09-02
- date of death
- 1956-09-22
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- name in native language
- Frederick Soddy
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- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". Soddy was a polymath who mastered chemistry, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, finance, and economics.
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