A tale of oblivion
Ida Noddack and the ‘universal abundance’ of matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20314990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gildo Magalhães Dos Santos (Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author), GILDO MAGALHÃES SANTOS (Universidade de São Paulo) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 373-389 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.2014.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2142900926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Ida Noddack was a German chemist who in 1925, with her husband Walter Noddack, discovered element 75 (rhenium) and possibly element 43 (technetium). She is also known to have anticipated, by nine years, the possibility of nuclear fission. This article focuses on Ida's hypothesis that all elements are present in any mineral. Ida related the relative abundance of the elements in the Universe to hypothetical properties of the atomic nuclei. This allowed her to speculate about a different Periodic Table in which isotopes might be the cause of unexpected features of periodicity. Ida Noddack faced many professional obstacles because of her scientific nonconformity and gender, the resentment of physicists against intrusion in their field, and the overall difficulty of research under and after the Nazi regime
Archaeology · Element (criminal law) · German · Political science · Politics · Resentment · Sociology · History · History and advancements in chemistry · Law · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |