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Vitaly Goldansky

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Vitaly Goldansky · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist and chemist; nuclear chemistry and two-proton radioactivity

When

1923, Vitebsk, Soviet Union (now Belarus) — 2001, Moscow, Russia

Where

Soviet Union · Russia

Biography

Vitaly Goldansky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist and chemist; nuclear chemistry and two-proton radioactivity

How & why

Goldansky was a Soviet and Russian physical chemist and nuclear physicist who theoretically predicted two-proton radioactivity, a novel form of nuclear decay later confirmed experimentally, and did pioneering work in positron chemistry and Mössbauer spectroscopy. He headed the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was of Jewish descent.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist and chemist; nuclear chemistry and two-proton radioactivity

1923

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics