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CHEMIST

George de Hevesy

1885 - 1966

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George de Hevesy has received more than 464,403 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). George de Hevesy is the 71st most popular chemist (down from 67th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Chemist.

George de Hevesy was a Hungarian chemist who is most famous for his work in the field of radioactive decay.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, George de Hevesy ranks 71 out of 509. Before him are Arne Tiselius, Dorothy Hodgkin, John Howard Northrop, Hans Adolf Krebs, Otto Diels, and Theodore William Richards. After him are Richard Willstätter, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Gilbert N. Lewis, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, George de Hevesy ranks 22. Before him are André Maurois, Ernst Busch, Umberto Nobile, D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Tatlin, and Mikhail Frunze. After him are Ernst Bloch, Yakov Sverdlov, Heinrich Brüning, Sonia Delaunay, Karl Radek, and Sabina Spielrein. Among people deceased in 1966, George de Hevesy ranks 19. Before him are Giuseppe Farina, Chester W. Nimitz, Montgomery Clift, Dietrich von Choltitz, Felix Steiner, and Cemal Gürsel. After him are Frits Zernike, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Célestin Freinet, Vincent Auriol, Albert Göring, and Paul Reynaud.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, George de Hevesy ranks 55 out of 866. Before him are Leo Szilard (1898), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Emeric Thököly (1657), Flórián Albert (1941), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), and Karl Mannheim (1893). After him are Elizabeth of Bosnia (1340), Sándor Petőfi (1823), László Moholy-Nagy (1895), Béla Guttmann (1899), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), and Andrew I of Hungary (1010).

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Among CHEMISTS In Hungary

Among chemists born in Hungary, George de Hevesy ranks 1. After him are Avram Hershko (1937), George Andrew Olah (1927), Katalin Karikó (1955), Mária Telkes (1900), and Michael Polanyi (1891).

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