George de Hevesy

George de Hevesy
George de Hevesy
Born	György Bischitz; 1 August 1885; Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	5 July 1966 (aged 80); Freiburg, West Germany
Citizenship	Hungary; Germany;
Education	University of Budapest; Technical University of Berlin; University of Freiburg
Known for	Hafnium; Radioactive tracer;
Spouse	Pia Riis (m. 1924)
Children	4
Parents	Lajos Bischitz (father); Eugénia Schossberger (mother);
Awards	Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1943); Copley Medal (1949); Faraday Lectureship Prize (1950); Atoms for Peace Award (1958); Fellow of the Royal Society
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Ghent University; University of Budapest; Niels Bohr Institute; ETH Zürich; University of Freiburg; University of Manchester; Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics
Doctoral advisor	Georg Franz Julius Meyer
Other academic advisors	Fritz Haber; Ernest Rutherford
Doctoral students	Rolf Hosemann; Johann Böhm
Other notable students	Erika Cremer (postdoc)

George Charles de Hevesy (born György Bischitz; Hungarian: Hevesy György Károly; German: Georg Karl von Hevesy; 1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.

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