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PROF. GEORGE HEVESY celebrates his sixtieth birthday on August 1 in Sweden, where he is a guest of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm. Members of the Academy have prepared a jubilee volume to mark the occasion. Prof. Hevesy and his family escaped from Denmark to Sweden when racial persecutions in Denmark and the tide of terrorism by the German occupants reached a climax in 1944. Prof. Hevesy is well known especially for his work on isotopes, including the early use of radioactive tracer atoms in investigations on diffusion in crystals and later on numerous biochemical problems, involving among others the study of the metabolism of phosphorus in organisms. His other great field of contributions to modern science is the discovery of the element hafnium, the chemical separation of hafnium from zirconium and the study of the properties of hafnium compounds. The relationship between hafnium and zirconium led him to the problem of the rare earth elements. Later, he developed quantitative analysis by means of his X-ray technique for the study of the geochemical frequency and distribution of numerous elements.
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Prof. George Hevesy, For.Mem.R.S. Nature 156, 106 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156106b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156106b0