George de Hevesy:
George de Hevesy was a Hungarian-Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate. He is also known as Georg von Hevesy.
Birth:
August 1, 1885 in Budapest, Hungary
Death:
July 5, 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany
Claim to Fame:
Hevesy was a Hungarian-Swedish chemist who was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a technique to use radioisotopes to detect chemical processes in living systems. He prepared salt solutions using an isotope of lead (Pb212) and traced how plants absorbed the solution. He also discovered the element hafnium with Dick Coster in 1923.