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Ida Noddack

German chemist

Also known as: Ida Eva Tacke

Written by Erik Gregersen

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Last Updated: Feb 21, 2024 • Article History

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Née:: Ida Eva Tacke

Born:: February 25, 1896, Lackhausen (now Wesel), Germany

Died:: September 24, 1978, Bad Neuenahr, Germany (aged 82)

Subjects Of Study:: nuclear fission; rhenium

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Ida Noddack (born February 25, 1896, Lackhausen (now Wesel), Germany—died September 24, 1978, Bad Neuenahr, Germany) German chemist who codiscovered the chemical element rhenium and who first proposed the idea of nuclear fission. Tacke received a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree from the Technical University in Berlin in 1919 and 1921, respectively. In 1925 she became a researcher at the Physico-Technical Research Agency in Berlin, where she began collaborating with chemists Walter Noddack and Otto Carl Berg. When Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev proposed the periodic table of the chemical elements in 1871, he left gaps in places where he believed ...(100 of 559 words)

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