Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Friedrich Adolf Paneth: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born August 31, 1887 • Vienna • Austria
Died September 17, 1958 (aged 71) • Vienna • Austria
Subjects Of Study atmosphere • helium dating • isotopic tracer • noble gas • radical • radioactive isotope
default image
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
default image
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
default image
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Inside the body: From radioactive tracers to fluorescent proteins
Georg Charles von Hevesy
Hungarian-Swedish chemist
default image
Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
default image
Moses Gomberg
American chemist
default image
Herman Francis Mark
American chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
default image
Walter Kohn
American physicist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Freiherr von
Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach
Austrian chemist and engineer
Zsigmondy, Richard
Richard Zsigmondy
German chemist
default image
Fritz Pregl
Austrian chemist
default image
Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist
default image
Stanley Miller
American biochemist

Related Quizzes

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science