Frederick Soddy

English radiochemist (1877–1956)

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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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Works: 23

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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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1877
Active to: 1956

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A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
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Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
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Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
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Quotes

“Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.”
“Do not draw the hasty conclusion that, because the clarity and unanimity reached in the study of inanimate nature have not been approached in the study of life, they have... no application... to the higher aspects of life. ...[A]s regards what it is impossible to believe.., they effect a not inconsiderable simplification, and... pave the way... for a more definite and truer... philosophy to replace the old.”
“Life... is lived in an intimate relation with the external physical universe, and the breaking of that connection is death. ...[M]en ...have contended that life transcends the breaking of the bond between it and the external world and persists ...”
“Amid a world of appearance and change, science seeks the fundamental and abiding realities, and... applies... the test of "conservation." Whatever is conserved unchanged during all possible changes is regarded as real.”
“We speak of the , meaning that in the... interplay of matter, motion and force.., however complicated.., or... violent and catastrophic.., something is unchanged and remains the same.., and that... is termed energy. ...[N]othing, not even money, has a more real existence.”
“It is the priests, not religion, [that] it is difficult for scientific men to live with... [S]cience cannot coexist with priest-craft.”

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date of birth: 1877-09-02
date of death: 1956-09-22
name in native language: Frederick Soddy

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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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