Gerhard Carl Schmidt

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Gerhard Carl Schmidt
Born (1865-07-05)5 July 1865
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.

Life

Schmidt was born in London to German parents.

He studied chemistry and in 1890 received his PhD for work with Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum.

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]

See also

  • List of multiple discoveries

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. 
  2. ↑ "Gerhard Carl Schmidt". Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 4: 41. 1951. 
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