About
An English chemist who was known for his studies of radioactive substances. He was awarded the 19201 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that radioactivity is caused by the transmutation of elements.
Before Fame
He was a researcher at Oxford from 1898 to 1900.
Trivia
His essays on radioactivity was the inspiration for H. G. Wells's The World Set Free in 1914.
Family Life
He married Winifred Beilby in 1908.
Associated With
He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry the year after Walther Nernst.
