Frederick Soddy
Noun
Meaning
English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956)
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Examples
Between 1900 and 1903, Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy showed how thorium decayed at a fixed rate over time into a series of other elements.
In 1901, Rutherford and Frederick Soddy showed that alpha and beta radioactivity involves the transmutation of atoms into atoms of other chemical elements.
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy jointly had continued their work on radioactive materials and concluded that radioactivity was due to a spontaneous transmutation of atomic elements.
He followed Frederick Soddy 's work investigating isotopes and contributed to the discovery of more than 100 isotopes of elements.