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 474,936 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). George de Hevesy is the 77th most popular chemist (down from 71st in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 55th 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 77 out of 602. Before him are Francis William Aston, Irving Langmuir, Hermann Staudinger, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, and Dorothy Hodgkin. After him are Gilbert N. Lewis, Theodore William Richards, James B. Sumner, Hans Adolf Krebs, Odd Hassel, and William Crookes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, George de Hevesy ranks 21. Before him are Chester W. Nimitz, André Maurois, Mikhail Frunze, Ernst Busch, Princess Alice of Battenberg, and Ernst Bloch. After him are Sonia Delaunay, Vladimir Tatlin, Yakov Sverdlov, D. H. Lawrence, Heinrich Brüning, and Karl Radek. Among people deceased in 1966, George de Hevesy ranks 19. Before him are Peter Debye, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Giuseppe Farina, Frits Zernike, Felix Steiner, and Cemal Gürsel. After him are Dietrich von Choltitz, Vincent Auriol, Guillermo Stábile, Montgomery Clift, Célestin Freinet, and Paul Reynaud.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, George de Hevesy ranks 58 out of 1,077. Before him are Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Emeric Thököly (1657), Stephen V of Hungary (1239), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), Paul Erdős (1913), and Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503). After him are John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), László Moholy-Nagy (1895), Béla Guttmann (1899), and László Sólyom (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In Hungary

Among chemists born in Hungary, George de Hevesy ranks 1. After him are Katalin Karikó (1955), Avram Hershko (1937), George Andrew Olah (1927), Mária Telkes (1900), Michael Polanyi (1891), and Elizabeth Roboz Einstein (1904).

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