Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)

Awarded the Prize “for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, his investigations into the origin nature of isotopes.”

British chemist. Soddy was born in Eastbourne on September 2, 1877. In 1898 he graduated at Merton College, Oxford. He went to Canada from 1900 to 1902 was Demonstrator in the Chemistry Department of McGill University, Montreal. Then he worked at University College, London. From 1904 to 1914 Soddy was Lecturer in Physical Chemistry Radioactivity in the University of Glasgow. In 1914 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen. In 1919 he became Dr. Lees Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University. He died on September 22, 1956 at Brighton, Engl.