Ida Noddack [SEP] date of birth
Ida Noddack
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.
Background.
Ida Tacke was born in Wesel, Lackhausen in the northern Rhine region in 1896. She described how she picked her path of study by stating
manganese chemical group)
- Noddack, Ida, and Walter Noddack. 1927. Das Rhenium. Ergebnisse Der Exakten Naturwissenschaften. 6. Bd. (1927) (Rhenium)
- Noddack, Ida, and Walter Noddack. 1933. "Das Rhenium". Leipzig: Leopold Foss. (Rhenium)
- Noddack, Ida (1934). Über das Element 93. Angewandte Chemie. 47(37): 653-655. (On Element 93).
- Noddack, Walter, and Ida Noddack. 1937