Human Accomplishment: Friedrich Ernst Dorn

a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.

Born

27 July 1848 Guttstadt (Dobre Miasto), Province of Prussia

Died

16 December 1916 (aged 68) Halle, Province of Saxony, Germany

Nationality

German

Known for

Dorn effect Radon

Fields

Physics

Alma mater

University of Königsberg

Institutions

Halle University

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Germany

era

1800+

Friedrich Ernst Dorn