Willy Marckwald
Willy Marckwald · Science & Medicine
Chemist known for stereochemistry and radioactivity research
1864, Jakobskirch, Prussia (now Poland) — 1942, Rolândia, Brazil
Germany · Brazil
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Marckwald was a German chemist known for work in stereochemistry and radioactivity; in 1902 he isolated a radioactive substance he called radio-tellurium, later identified as polonium. He was Jewish and escaped Nazi Germany for Brazil.
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Chemist known for stereochemistry and radioactivity research
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
