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...was a physical chemist born and educated in Vienna. He became Professor of Physical Chemistry at [[Vienna University]] but was expelled on racial grounds in 19 ...ef name="F148"/> the son of Berthold Gross, chief accountant of the {{illm|Austrian North West Railway|de|Österreichische Nordwestbahn}}. He attended the Erzhe ...

...ngewandte physikalische Chemie'' (Journal for Electrochemistry and Applied Physical Chemistry), '''38''' (8a) : 611–614. Available on-line in English translat ...), ''Журнал Русского Физико-химического Общества'' (Journal of the Russian Physical-Chemical Society), (in Russian) '''40''' : 1022–1067. ...

[[Nuclear fission]] was discovered in December 1938 by chemists [[Otto Hahn]] and [[Fritz Strassmann]] and physicists [[Lise Meitner]] and ...d. Hahn suggested a bursting of the nucleus, but he was unsure of what the physical basis for the results were. They reported their findings by mail to Meitner ...

...g the 1930s with the work of Dutch biologist [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]] and by Austrian biologists [[Konrad Lorenz]] and [[Karl von Frisch]].<ref>Burkhardt, Jr., R ...However, by about 1880 support for Van 't Hoff's theory by such important chemists as [[Johannes Wislicenus]] and [[Viktor Meyer]] brought recognition. ...

...d evidence that radioactivity was not the result of any simple chemical or physical processes.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Women in chemistry: their changing roles f ...15|title=Evidence for Heavy Nuclei in the Primary Cosmic Radiation|journal=Physical Review|volume=74|issue=2|pages=213–217|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.74.213|bibcode=1 ...

...wide applicability in his analysis of vast amounts of statistics of human physical characteristics such as height and other traits such as criminality and alc ...tion]] was not obtained till 60 years later, however. In the meantime, the Austrian [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] developed Maxwell's statistics further and [[H-theorem ...