Walter Noddack:
Walter Noddack was a German chemist.
Birth:
August 17, 1893 in Berlin, Germany
Death:
December 7, 1960 in Berlin, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Noddack was a German chemist who discovered the element rhenium with Ida Tacke and Otto Berg. 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.
