Kazimierz Fajans

✶May 27, 1887

†May 18, 1975

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About their life

Kazimierz Fajans was a Polish physical chemist, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the co-discoverer of chemical element protactinium. He was four times nominated for the Nobel Prize—three times in Chemistry and once in Physics—but he was never honored.

Polish-American scientist

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