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Frederick Soddy

Frederick SoddyBorn: 2-Sep-1877
Birthplace: Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died: 22-Sep-1956
Location of death: Brighton, Sussex, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Investigated radioactivity, isotopes

Father: Benjamin Soddy (merchant)
Wife: Winifred Beilby (m. 1908)

    University: Eastbourne College
    University: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
    University: Merton College, Oxford University (1898)
    Scholar: Oxford University (1898-99)
    Teacher: McGill University (1900-02)
    Scholar: University College London
    Professor: University of Glasgow (1904-14)
    Professor: Chemistry, University of Aberdeen (1914-19)
    Professor: Dr. Lees Professor of Chemistry, Oxford University (1919-37)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1921
    Royal Society 1910

Author of books:
Radioactivity (1904, chemistry)
The Interpretation of Radium (1909, chemistry)
The Chemistry of the Radioactive Elements (1912-14, chemistry)
Matter and Energy (1912, chemistry)
Science and Life (1920, chemistry)
The Interpretation of the Atom (1932, chemistry)
The Story of Atomic Energy (1949, chemistry)
Atomic Transmutation (1953, chemistry)


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