Gerhard Carl Schmidt

Gerhard Carl Schmidt
Born 5 July 1865(1865-07-05)
London, United Kingdom
Died 16 October 1949(1949-10-16) (aged 84)
Münster Germany
Nationality German
Fields chemistry
Doctoral advisor Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum
Known for discovered that thorium is radioactive

Gerhard Carl Schmidt (5. July 1865 – 16. October 1949) was a German chemist. Schmidt was born in London to German parents. Schmidt studied chemistry and received his PhD for work with Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum in 1890. In 1898, two months before Marie Curie, Schmidt discovered that thorium is radioactive.[1] Schmidt died of a stroke in Münster 16. October 1949.[2]

References

  1. ^ G. C. Schmidt (1898). "Über die von den Thorverbindungen und einigen anderen Substanzen ausgehende Strahlung (On the radiation emitted by thorium compounds and some other substances)". Annalen der Physik und Chemie 65: 141–151. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k153068.image.r=Annalen+der+Physic.f149.langFR. 
  2. ^ "Gerhard Carl Schmidt". Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 1: 41. 1951. http://books.google.de/books?lr=&client=firefox-a&id=gOQSAAAAIAAJ&.