Ida Noddack

Ida Noddack (born February 25, 1896, Lackhausen (now Wesel), Germany—died September 24, 1978, Bad Neuenahr, Germany) was a German chemist who codiscovered the chemical element rhenium and who first proposed the idea of nuclear fission. Tacke received a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree from the Technical University in Berlin in 1919 and 1921, respectively. In 1925 she became a researcher at the Physico-Technical Research Agency in Berlin, where she began collaborating with chemists Walter Noddack...