Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (1932–1934) Niels Bohr Institute (1934–1943) Wenner-Gren Institute for Experimental Biology (1943–1945) Zoo Physiological Laboratory (1945–1979) Niels Bohr Archive (1979–2003)
Doctoral advisor
Peter Pringsheim [de] Fritz Haber
Hilde Levi (9 May 1909 – 26 July 2003) was a German-Danish physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she became a scientific historian, and published a biography of George de Hevesy.
Born into a non-religious Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany, Levi entered the University of Munich in 1929. She carried out her doctoral studies at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Berlin-Dahlem, writing her thesis on the spectra of alkali metal halides under the supervision of Peter Pringsheim [de] and Fritz Haber. By the time she completed it in 1934, the Nazi Party had been elected to office in Germany, and Jews were no longer allowed to be hired for academic positions. She went to Denmark where she found a position at the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen. Working with James Franck and George de Hevesy, she published a number of papers on the use of radioactive substances in biology.
When the Nazis began rounding up Danish Jews in September 1943, Levi fled to Sweden, where she worked for the biologist John Runnström at the Wenner-Gren Institute for Experimental Biology in Stockholm. After the war ended, she returned to Denmark to work at the Zoophysiological Laboratory in Copenhagen. She spent the 1947–48 academic year in the United States learning about the recently discovered techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography, which she introduced to Europe. She retired from the Zoophysiological Laboratory in 1979, but became involved with the Niels Bohr Archive, where she collected papers of de Hevesy, eventually publishing his biography.
HildeLevi (9 May 1909 – 26 July 2003) was a German-Danish physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably...
careers of women in physics, notably Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and HildeLevi. After the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in 1933, Franck resigned...
neutron detector, an assay technique pioneered by George de Hevesy and HildeLevi. She was able to arrange for Hedwig Kohn, who faced deportation to Poland...
Guido Beck, Felix Bloch, James Franck, George de Hevesy, Otto Frisch, HildeLevi, Lise Meitner, George Placzek, Eugene Rabinowitch, Stefan Rozental, Erich...
Elected Miss Hungary." George de Hevesy: life and work : a biography, HildeLevi, A. Hilger, 1985 Weibel, Peter (2005). Beyond Art - A Third Culture :...
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oxides that had been given to him by Auergesellschaft, so de Hevesy and HildeLevi carried out the process with them. When the Rome group reached uranium...
Bohr Institute in Copenhagen in September 1934, where he proposed to HildeLevi, who accepted. The match was opposed by Bethe's mother, who despite having...
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and Radioactive Traces; Chemistry", Bull. Isr. Chem. Soc. (18): 41–43 Levi, Hilde (1985), George de Hevesy : life and work : a biography, Bristol: A. Hilger...
as Ada Harris Derrick - Season 12, Episode 8: "Schwester Hilde" (1985), as Schwester Hilde Die Erbschaft (1987), as Wilhelmine Eisel The State Chancellery...
actresses in Germany" with ambitious feature films such as Jew-Boy Levi (Viehjud Levi) and television dramas like Dominik Graf's Your Best Years (Deine...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec José Ferrer No Greater Love Bertha von Suttner Hilde Krahl The Pride of St. Louis Dizzy Dean Dan Dailey Procès au Vatican Thérèse...
founded by Uri Phoebus Halevi (also known as Uri Fayvesh ben Aharon ha-Levi). It was a semi-weekly founded in Amsterdam in 1686, that was published on...
François, Mary M. Walker, Renny Hoalona Loren, Frank Salsedo, Reidar Sørensen, Hilde Grythe, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Nicholas Hope, Frank Krog, Norman Charles United...
whereas Tuzla was the only city in which the Ashkenazi were numerous (there Hilde Zaloscer was born). In this period Moshe ben Rafael Attias achieved prominence...
Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture Hilde de Weerdt, Fellow and Tutor in Chinese History at Pembroke College, University...
Brian Leiter James G. Lennox Isaac Levi Michael Levin Clarence Irving Lewis David Kellogg Lewis Mark Lilla Hilde Lindemann Alphonso Lingis Leonard Linsky...
(2nd ed.). San Francisco: Academic Press. p. 1060. ISBN 978-0-12-385158-1. Levi, Hilde (1985). George de Hevesy: Life and Work : a Biography. Copenhagen: Copenhagen...
composer Stefan Wolpe, composer Alec Empire, member of Atari Teenage Riot Hilde Zadek, soprano Aron Liedtke, music producer Hans Zimmer, film score composer...
pp. 429–30, 451–2 C. H. Haskins, Studies in Mediaeval Science, pp. 8–10 Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (2003). A History of the University in Europe: Volume...
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