Person Soddy; Frederick (1877 - 1956) Soddy Frederick 1877 - 1956 British Male Eastbourne, Sussex, England 02 September 1877 Brighton, Sussex 26/09/1956 19560926

Radiochemistry Education: Chemistry MA (Oxon) Career: Prior to WW1 worked on potential effects of the release of atomic energy, working with Ernest Rutherford at McGill in 1901 and publishing 8 papers setting out the 'Disintegration Theory of Atomic Transmutation' for which Rutherford received the Nobel Prize; Glasgow University (1904-1914) studied the displacements in the periodic table through radioactive changes leading to his theory of chemically identical elements with different atomic weights, which he called isotopes receiving the Nobel Prize in 1921; involved in the Le Play Society; established the Frederick Soddy Trust by his will, giving grants to groups studying the whole life of a community Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1921 Son-in-law of Sir George Thomas Beilby (FRS 1906) Fellow 05/05/1910 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB AssocMaterial: CSAC 14/8/74. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1957 vol 3 pp 203-216, plate, by Alexander Fleck References: B Bleaney, FRS, 'Two Oxford science Professors, F Soddy and JSE Townsend' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 83-88, plate Brebis Bleaney, 'The Physical Sciences in Oxford, 1918-1939 and Earlier' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 247-261 S Devons, 'Rutherford and the Science of His Day' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 221-242 N Feather, 'Isotopes, Isomers and the Fundamental Law of Radioactive Change' in NR 1977-8 vol 32 pp 225-231 Edmund J Bowen, 'The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford 1853-1940' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 227-236 Sir Harold Hartley, 'The Ramsay Centenary' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 71-80 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 2 Sep 1877 - 26 Sep 1956 NA8018 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/5014335 9087fbc3-014d-4f48-850f-d2b8d65103ab