Aristid von Grosse

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Aristid von Grosse
Institutions Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor Otto Hahn
Known for isolation of pureprotactinium compounds

Aristid von Grosse was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn he got access to wast material from the radium production with this starting materila he was able in 1927 to isolated protactinium oxide[1] and was later able to produce metallic protactinium[2]by decomposition of protactinium iodide.


[edit] Reference

  1. ^ Aristid von Grosse (1928). "Das Element 91; seine Eigenschaften und seine Gewinnung". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 61 (1): 233–245. doi:10.1002/cber.19280610137. 
  2. ^ Aristid von Grosse (1934). "Element 91". Science 80 (2084): 512–516. doi:10.1126/science.80.2084.512. 


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