Flashcards: Nuclear chemists

Leo Yaffe, OC FRSC (July 6, 1916 – May 14, 1997) was a Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist and a proponent of the peaceful uses of nuclear power.

Ada Florence Remfry Hitchins (26 June 1891 – 4 January 1972) was the principal research assistant of British chemist Frederick Soddy, who won the Nobel prize in 1921 for work on radioactive elements and the theory of isotopes.

Fritz Johann Hansgirg (1891–1949) was an Austrian electrochemist and metallurgist who in 1928 invented the carbothermic magnesium reduction process (magnesium, like calcium, can be used to reduce uranium oxide to pure uranium metal for use in nuclear weapons), similar to the Pidgeon process.

Professor Katherine Austin Lathrop (1915–2005) was an American nuclear medicine pioneer and member of the Manhattan Project.

Joanna S. Fowler is a Scientist Emeritus at the U.

Malcolm Cuthbert Nokes MC MA BSc (20 May 1897 – 22 November 1986) was a British schoolteacher, soldier, research scientist and Olympic athlete, who competed in the hammer throw and discus throw.

Ellen Gleditsch (29 December 1879 – 5 June 1968) was a Norwegian radiochemist and Norway's second female professor.

John William Gofman (September 21, 1918 – August 15, 2007) was an American scientist and advocate.

Gregorio Baró, PhD was an Argentine scientist born in Santiago Temple, Córdoba on June 19, 1928 and died in Buenos Aires on May 28, 2012.

John Robert Huizenga (April 21, 1921 – January 25, 2014) was an American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb and who also received more recent fame for attempting to debunk Utah scientists' claim of achieving cold fusion.

Paul Kazuo Kuroda (1 April 1917 – 16 April 2001), was a Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.

Anthony Leonid Turkevich (July 23, 1916 – September 7, 2002) was an American radiochemist who was the first to determine the composition of the Moon's surface using an alpha scattering spectrometer on the Surveyor 5 mission in 1967.

Alexis Constantin Georg Pappas (16 October 1915 – 12 February 2010) was a Norwegian chemist.

Chaudhry Abdul Majeed (born:1937; Urdu: چودہری عبد لمجيد ) is a Pakistani nuclear chemist and an atomic weapon and technology expert.