Stefan Meyer: Pioneer of Radioactivity
Abstract
Stefan Meyer was one of the pioneers in radioactivity research and director of the Vienna Radium Institute, the first institution in the world devoted exclusively to radioactivity. I give here a biographical sketch of Meyer and of some of his colleagues and an overview of the research activities at the Radium Institute.
- Publication:
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Physics in Perspective
- Pub Date:
- March 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s000160050058
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhP.....3..106R
- Keywords:
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- Key words. Stefan Meyer;
- Franz S. Exner;
- Ludwig Boltzmann;
- Victor F. Hess;
- George de Hevesy;
- Karl Przibram;
- Hans Pettersson;
- Marietta Blau;
- biography;
- radioactivity;
- nuclear physics;
- Vienna Radium Institute;
- history of physics.