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[Phys-l] Frederick Soddi



I did not know that F. Soddi was also active in a field of economics

http://elarie.typepad.com/weblog/2009/04/easter-tomorrow-stalinism-today.html

The name isotope (meaning the same place in the periodic table) was introduced by him in 1913. He is also famous for the discovery radioactive gasses, emanations, such bas radon (short half-life). He and Rutherford "reached an excellent understanding of the nature of radioactivity and published their conclusions that the radioactive elements were undergoing spontaneous transformations from one chemical atom into another, . . . " In other words, they discovered alchemy in nature, such as Ra228->Rn222->Po218, etc.

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Ludwik Kowalski, a retired physics teacher and an amateur journalist. Updated links to publications and reviews are at:

http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/ http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/my_opeds.html http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/revcom.html