Friedrich Oskar Giesel

Friedrich Oskar Giesel (20 May 1852 – 13 November 1927, known as Fritz) was a German organic chemist. During his work in a quinine factory in the late 1890s, he started to work on the at-that-time-new field of radiochemistry and started the production of radium. In the period between 1902 and 1904, he was able to isolate a new element emanium. In a now controversially reviewed process, it was stated that emanium is identical to actinium, which was discovered by André-Louis Debierne in 1899.

Friedrich Oskar Giesel
Born(1852-05-20)20 May 1852
Winzig, Germany
Died13 November 1927(1927-11-13) (aged 75)
Braunschweig Germany
NationalityGerman
Known fordiscovery of actinium
Scientific career
Fieldsradiochemistry
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