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Jan 24, 1904 Vienna, Austria Died on 04 Feb 1990 (aged 86)
Austrian physicist
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About Berta Karlik
- Berta Karlik was an Austrian physicist.
- She worked for the University of Vienna, eventually becoming the first female professor at the institution.
- While working with Ernst Foyn she published a paper on the radioactivity of seawater.
- She discovered that the element 85 astatine is a product of the natural decay processes.
- The element was first synthesized in 1940 by Dale R.
- Corson, K.
- R.
- MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè, after several scientists in vain searched for it in radioactive minerals.
