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Stefan Meyer: Pioneer of Radioactivity

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Stefan Meyer was one of the pioneers in radioactivity research and director of the Vienna Radium Institute, the first institution in the world devoted exclusively to radioactivity. I give here a biographical sketch of Meyer and of some of his colleagues and an overview of the research activities at the Radium Institute.

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  1. The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Boltzmannsgasse 9, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, e-mail: wolfgang.reiter@univie.ac.at, , , , , , AT

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Reiter, W. Stefan Meyer: Pioneer of Radioactivity. Phys. perspect. 3, 106–127 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000160050058

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