6 lives in this collection worked in radiochemistry, from 1852 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: nuclear chemistry, chemistry, nuclear physics, physical chemistry, radioactivity. All fields
Scottish chemist who discovered argon with Lord Rayleigh and then helium, neon, krypton and xenon, completing a new group of the periodic table.
chemistry, physical chemistry, noble gases
Polish-French physicist and chemist who showed that radioactivity is an atomic property, discovered polonium and radium with Pierre Curie, and was the first person awarded two Nobel Prizes.
physics, chemistry, radioactivity
Radiochemist who with Rutherford explained radioactivity as atomic transmutation, formulated the displacement law and the concept of isotopes, and later wrote on monetary economics and the geometry of tangent circles.
radiochemistry, physical chemistry, economics
German chemist who founded radiochemistry, co-discovered protactinium with Lise Meitner, identified barium among the products of irradiated uranium with Fritz Strassmann, and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission.
radiochemistry, nuclear chemistry
French physicist and chemist who with Frédéric Joliot discovered artificial radioactivity, and whose 1938 work with Pavle Savić on neutron-irradiated uranium helped lead to the discovery of fission.
radioactivity, nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry
French physicist and chemist who with Irène Joliot-Curie discovered artificial radioactivity, showed that uranium fission releases neutrons, and led the first French Atomic Energy Commission.
nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry, radiochemistry