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George de Hevesy
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Person

George de Hevesy

1885 – 1966 · aged 81

Hungarian chemist (1885–1966)

Born
1 Aug 1885 · Budapest
Died
5 Jul 1966 · Freiburg im Breisgau
Part ofSweden800 CE – todayHungary975 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 93 years
  1. 1 Aug 1885BornBorn in Budapest
  2. 1939AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  3. 1943AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  4. 1949AwardCopley Medal
  5. 1950AwardFaraday Lectureship Prize
  6. 1951AwardBaly Medal
  7. 1952AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  8. 1961AwardNiels Bohr International Gold Medal
  9. 5 Jul 1966DiedDied in Freiburg im Breisgau

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1885 – 1966).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution

Biography

George Charles de Hevesy (born György Bischitz; Hungarian: Hevesy György Károly; German: Georg Karl von Hevesy; 1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry 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.

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