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Key facts
- Born
- Ida Tacke , 25 February 1896, Lackhausen, Rhine Province , Prussia , German Empire
- Died
- 24 September 1978 (1978-09-24) (aged 82), Bad Neuenahr , Rhineland-Palatinate , West Germany
- Citizenship
- German
- Alma mater
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Known for
- Rhenium , nuclear fission
- Spouse
- Walter Noddack ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1928 )
- Awards
- Liebig Medal , Scheele Medal 3x Nobel Prize Nominations
- Fields
- Chemist and physicist
- Institutions
- Allgemein Elektrizität Gesellschaft, Berlin; Siemens & Halske , Berlin; Physikalische Technische Reichsanstalt, Berlin; University of Freiburg , University of Strasbourg ; Staatliche Forschungs Institut für Geochemie, Bamberg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ida
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Wesel
- Place of death
- Bad Neuenahr
- Spouse
- Walter Noddack
- Occupation
- chemist
- Educated at
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Languages spoken
- German
- Award
- Liebig Medal
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Ida Noddack-Tacke.png
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- date of birth
- 1896-02-25
- date of death
- 1978-09-24
- Commons category
- Ida Noddack
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Ida Noddack (25 February 1896 – 24 September 1978), née Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. In 1934 she was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission. With her husband Walter Noddack, and Otto Berg, she discovered element 75, rhenium. She was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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