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Friedrich Adolf Paneth

Austrian chemist
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Friedrich Adolf Paneth (born Aug. 31, 1887, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 17, 1958, Vienna) was an Austrian chemist who, with George Charles de Hevesy, introduced radioactive tracer techniques (1912–13). Paneth, the son of noted physiologist Joseph Paneth, studied at Munich, Glasgow, and Vienna, then held positions at the Radium Institute, Vienna, and at research facilities in Prague, Hamburg, Berlin, and Königsberg. Upon the rise of the Nazi movement, he went to England and took a position...

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