• Gerog Hevesy at the Radium Institute in 1915. Hevesy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943 for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes. Jointly with Frederic Paneth, he did the first radioactive-tracer experiment at the institute in 1913. The year the picture was taken he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army. Source: Central Library for Physics, Vienna.

Source: Central Library for Physics, Vienna.

From Trafficking materials and gendered experimental practices: Radium research in early 20th century Vienna by Maria Rentetzi

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