1. Kazimierz Fajans was a Polish-Jewish physical chemist, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the co-discoverer of chemical element protactinium.
11 Facts About Kazimierz Fajans
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In 1910 Kazimierz Fajans took a job at the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford in Manchester, where the nucleus was discovered.
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Kazimierz Fajans then returned to Germany, where he became an assistant and subsequently assistant professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, researching radioactivity.
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Kazimierz Fajans stayed for a while in Cambridge and then moved to the University of Michigan where he worked until his demise.
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Kazimierz Fajans retired at age of seventy but never stopped working.
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Kazimierz Fajans died May 18,1975, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Kazimierz Fajans identified the half-lives of the uranium-actinium row and thorium nuclides.
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Kazimierz Fajans discovered the phenomenon of the electrochemical branching of the radioactive rows.
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In 1919, Kazimierz Fajans began researching the structure of crystals by thermochemical and refractometric methods.
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The co-relation of Born, Kazimierz Fajans and Haber is a basic thermochemical rule.
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Kazimierz Fajans was a member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America and of many societies and academies.