Frederick Soddy:
Frederick Soddy was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 2, 1877 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Death:
September 22, 1956 in Brighton, Sussex
Claim to Fame:
Soddy was an English chemist who was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work concerning the origin and nature of isotopes. He discovered isotopes are created by the transmutation of elements through radioactive decay. He showed that elements move two atomic numbers lower by alpha decay and one atomic number by beta decay.
