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How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn't fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years ago

  • Written by Artemis Spyrou, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn't fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years agoGeorge De Hevesy working in his lab at Stockholm University in 1944. Keystone Features/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

Each October, the Nobel Prizes celebrate a handful of groundbreaking scientific achievements. And while many of the awarded discoveries revolutionize the field of science, some originate in unconventional places. For George de...

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