Talk:Friedrich Oskar Giesel

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Did you know... that when Friedrich Giesel discovered actinium independently from André-Louis Debierne, he wanted to call it "emaniumn"?

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Oskar Giesel geb. 20.05.1852 • gest. 13.11.1927
Friedrich Oskar Giesel (1852 – 1927) gelangen grundlegende Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Radioaktivität
Friedrich Oskar Giesel (Pionier der Radioaktivitätsforschung - Opfer seiner Wissenschaft)
Zur Kenntnis und radiometrischen Charakterisierung von Spinthariskopen – Kongenialität und Kollegialität von Friedrich Giesel, Julius Elster & Hans Geitel und Sir William Crookes
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Hahn, Otto. "Friedrich Giesel." Physikalische Zeitschrift, 12 (1928): 353–357