Alphabetical Index
Index by Year of Birth
Nobel Prize
laureates
Georg Karl von Hevesy
1943 Physics
* 1885 in Budapest
+ 1966 in Freiburg
George Charles de Hevesy (German: Georg Karl von Hevesy was a
Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate,
recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of
radioactive tracers
to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.
He also co-discovered the element hafnium.
2017 J. Giesen