Frederick Soddy

January 10, 2024
Chemist

Quick Facts

Frederick Soddy
Full Name Frederick Soddy
Occupation Chemist
Date Of Birth Sep 2, 1877(1877-09-02)
Age 147
Date Of Death 1956-09-22
Birthplace Eastbourne
Country United Kingdom
Birth City England
Horoscope Virgo

Frederick Soddy Biography

Name Frederick Soddy
Birthday Sep 2
Birth Year 1877
Place Of Birth Eastbourne
Home Town England
Birth Country United Kingdom
Birth Sign Virgo
Parents Benjamin Soddy, Hannah Green Soddy

Frederick Soddy is one of the most popular and richest Chemist who was born on September 2, 1877 in Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom. An English chemical chemist, who was famous for his work on radioactive substances. His name was given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that radioactivity can be caused by the transformation of elements.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the year following He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry the year after Walther Nernst..

He was married to Winifred Beilby, his wife of 1908.

Frederick Soddy Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Chemist
House Living in own house.

Frederick Soddy is one of the richest Chemist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frederick Soddy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was an academic researcher at Oxford from 1898 until 1900.

His radioactivity essays were the basis to H. G. Wells’s The World Set Free in 1914.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Frederick Soddy height Not available right now. Frederick weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Frederick Soddy Dating?

According to our records, Frederick Soddy is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Frederick Soddy’s is not dating anyone.

Relationships Record : We have no records of past relationships for Frederick Soddy. You may help us to build the dating records for Frederick Soddy!

Facts & Trivia

Frederick Ranked on the list of most popular Chemist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Frederick Soddy celebrates birthday on September 2 of every year.

What was Frederick Soddy theory?

Frederick Soddy and Ernest Rutherford proposed the Disintegration Theory in 1902. This explained that radioactivity was the result of spontaneous disintegration of radioactive elements into new elements. They proposed that there were two radioactive decay series, one beginning with uranium and ending in lead.

What is Frederick Soddy famous for?

Frederick Soddy discovered that all radioactive preparations were not unique elements, but rather that some of them were variants of known elements. In other words, atoms could have the same chemical properties but have different properties when it came to radioactivity.

What experiment did Frederick Soddy do to discover isotopes?

At Glasgow, Soddy evolved his “ group displacement law ,” which stated that emission of an α-particle from a radioactive element causes that element to move two places to the left in the periodic table and that emission of a β-particle (an electron) causes that element to move one place to the right in the table.

When was Frederick Soddy born died?

Frederick Soddy, ( born Sept. 2, 1877 , Eastbourne, Sussex, Eng. —died Sept. 22, 1956, Brighton, Sussex), English chemist and recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for investigating radioactive substances and for elaborating the theory of isotopes.

What did Max Born invent?

Max Born is most famous for his work on quantum mechanics , especially his realization that the wave function can be interpreted as the probability amplitude of finding a particle at a specific point in space at a specific moment in time.

More Chemists

Related Posts