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Hevesy (Hungarian) [ˈhɛvɛʃi] n
(Biographies / Hevesy, Georg von (1885-1966) M, Hungarian, SCIENCE: chemist) Georg von (ˈgeːɔrg fɔn). 1885-1966, Hungarian chemist. He worked on radioactive tracing and, with D. Coster, discovered the element hafnium (1923): Nobel prize for chemistry 1943 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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. |
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