| George de Hevesy  AKA Georg Karl von Hevesy
Born: 1-Aug-1885
Birthplace: Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died: 5-Jul-1966
Location of death: Freiburg, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated, Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: Hungary
Executive summary: Radioisotope researcher Military service: Austro-Hungarian Army (drafted 1915, WWI) Hungarian-Swedish chemist George de Hevesy (sometimes presented as Georg von Hevesy) studied under Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, and in 1943 he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He predicted the existence of a chemical element with 72 protons, and working with Dutch physicist Dirk Coster (1889-1950) he discovered this element, hafnium (Hf), in 1923. In the same year he made the first use of isotopes as tracers in studying chemical processes, leading to development of the radioactive tracer technique still widely used in biological and medical research. In 1926 he began using x-ray fluorescence for mineral analyses. Father: Louis de Hevesy (Court Counsellor)
Mother: Eugénie, Baroness Schosberger
Wife: Pia Riis (m. 1924, one son, three daughters)
High School: Piarista Gimnázium, Budapest, Hungary (1903)
University: University of Budapest (attended, 1903-04)
University: Berlin Institute of Technology (attended, 1904)
University: PhD Chemistry, University of Freiburg (1908)
Scholar: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (1908-10)
Teacher: Chemistry, University of Karlsruhe (1910-11)
Teacher: Chemistry, University of Manchester (1911-13)
Teacher: Chemistry, University of Vienna (1913-20)
Professor: Chemistry, University of Copenhagen (1920-26)
Professor: Physical Chemistry, University of Freiburg (1926-43)
Professor: Organic Chemistry, University of Stockholm (1943-66)
Professor: University of Ghent (1949-66)
Cannizzaro Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei 1929
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1943
Copley Medal 1949
IET Faraday Medal 1950
Silvanus Thompson Medal 1955
Niels Bohr Medal 1961
British Chemical Society Foreign Member
British Institute of Radiology Foreign Member
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Royal Society Foreign Member
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Jewish Ancestry
Hungarian Ancestry
Lunar Crater Hevesy (Lat. 83.14, Long. 150.1, 49.5 km. diameter)
Author of books:
Adventures in Radioisotope Research (1962, chemistry, 2 vols.)
Industrial Isotope Techniques (1964, non-fiction; with Lars G. Erwall)
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