Friedrich Paneth
Friedrich Paneth · Science & Medicine
Radiochemist known for free radical detection and helium dating
1887, Vienna, Austria — 1958, Vienna, Austria
Vienna · Durham · Mainz
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Friedrich Adolf Paneth was an Austrian radiochemist who, with George de Hevesy, introduced the radioactive-tracer technique that became fundamental to chemistry and biology, and who developed helium-based methods for dating meteorites. Of Jewish origin, he fled Nazi Germany for Britain in 1933 and later directed the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.
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Radiochemist known for free radical detection and helium dating
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