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Frederick Soddy

1877 - 1956

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Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". Soddy was a polymath who mastered chemistry, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, finance, and economics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Soddy is the 58th most popular chemist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 323rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Chemist.

Frederick Soddy is most famous for his discovery of isotopes and his work on the periodic table.

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Among chemists, Frederick Soddy ranks 58 out of 602. Before him are Otto Diels, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Walther Nernst, Rodney Robert Porter, Robert Bunsen, and Justus von Liebig. After him are Kurt Alder, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Francis William Aston, Norman Haworth, John Howard Northrop, and Ilya Prigogine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Frederick Soddy ranks 6. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Muhammad Iqbal, Isadora Duncan, Charles Glover Barkla, and Felix Dzerzhinsky. After him are Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Frick, Joan Gamper, Heinrich Otto Wieland, James Jeans, and Frank Marshall. Among people deceased in 1956, Frederick Soddy ranks 6. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, Irène Joliot-Curie, B. R. Ambedkar, Jackson Pollock, and William Boeing. After him are Konstantin von Neurath, Pietro Badoglio, Jules Rimet, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and Emil Nolde.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Soddy ranks 282 out of 8,785. Before him are Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Owain Glyndŵr (1359), Gladwyn Jebb (1900), John Venn (1834), George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504), and Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757). After him are Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964), Judi Dench (1934), David Gilmour (1946), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), and Thomas Young (1773).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Soddy ranks 11. Before him are Robert Robinson (1886), Humphry Davy (1778), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Arthur Harden (1865), Archer Martin (1910), and Rodney Robert Porter (1917). After him are Francis William Aston (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Sanger (1918), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), and M. Stanley Whittingham (1941).

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