Ida (Tacke) Noddack:
Ida (Tacke) Noddack was a German chemist.
Birth:
February 25, 1896 in Wesel, Germany
Death:
September 24, 1978 in Bad Neuenahr, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Noddack was a German chemist who, with her husband Walter, discovered the element rhenium. Rhenium was the second to last naturally occurring stable element discovered. It was isolated from platinum ore and the mineral columbite. The group announced they had found the element technetium when they bombarded columbite with electrons, but their results were never verified. They named their discovery masurium after the Masuria in Eastern Prussia.
