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Hevesy

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He·ve·sy  (hv-sh, hv-), Georg von or George Charles de 1885-1966.
Hungarian chemist. He won a 1943 Nobel Prize for developing the use of isotopes as tracers to investigate chemical processes.
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Noun1.Hevesy - Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966)
George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy
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Just as he was about to start his lecture on receipt of the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics, Bohr learned that back in Copenhagen this theory had passed a serious test as the Hungarian physicist George Hevesy discovered element 72 according to its prescriptions.
Going Bohr's way in physics by Thomsen, Dietrick E. / Science News
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