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Friedrich Adolf Paneth

Austrian chemist
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Aug. 31, 1887, Vienna, Austria
Died:
Sept. 17, 1958, Vienna (aged 71)
Subjects Of Study:
atmosphere
isotopic tracer
noble gas
radical
radioactive isotope
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Friedrich Adolf Paneth (born Aug. 31, 1887, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 17, 1958, Vienna) was an Austrian chemist who, with George Charles de Hevesy, introduced radioactive tracer techniques (1912–13). Paneth, the son of noted physiologist Joseph Paneth, studied at Munich, Glasgow, and Vienna, then held positions at the Radium Institute, Vienna, and at research facilities in Prague, Hamburg, Berlin, and Königsberg. Upon the rise of the Nazi movement, he went to England and took a position as guest lecturer at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (1933–38), and then became professor of chemistry at the University of Durham (1939). ...(100 of 194 words)

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