NOUN
- Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966)
How To Use Hevesy In A Sentence
- De Hevesy dissolved the medals in acid, creating a colloidal sol so dark it was virtually black.
- Hevesy from Stockholm received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers, involving studies in inorganic chemistry and geochemistry as well as on the metabolism in living organisms. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry