Four Presentation Copy Papers on Hafnium

by George de Hevesy

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First edition

1923–1951. First Edition. George de Hevesy's career encompassed both the discovery of a new element and the founding of isotopic tracer methodology, the latter earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943. His identification of hafnium in 1923, carried out in collaboration with the physicist Dirk Coster at Bohr's institute in Copenhagen, resolved a long-contested problem in periodic classification: it provided experimental confirmation of Bohr's

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