Kazimierz Fajans was a Polish American physical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the co-discoverer of chemical element protactinium. Wikipedia
Born: May 27, 1887, Warsaw, Poland
Died: May 18, 1975 (age 87 years), Ann Arbor, MI
Discovered: Protactinium
Education: Heidelberg University and Leipzig University
Notable students: Oswald Helmuth Göhring, Jannik Bjerrum, and Theodore H. Berlin
Academic advisor: Ernest Rutherford
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