Ida Noddack

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/ida-noddack

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1. When was Ida Noddack born?February 25, 1896, in Tacke, Germany
2. When did Ida Noddack die?September 24, 1978
3. What is the nobel prize nominations?Received three nominations for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4. What is the scientific field?Chemistry and Physics
5. Who was Ida Noddack?Ida Noddack was a German scientist who helped discover a new element and had a big idea about splitting atoms.
6. What element did she discover?She helped discover rhenium, a very dense metal that can stay hot at extremely high temperatures.

Nuclear Fission: A nuclear reaction in which a heavy nucleus splits into two or more smaller nuclei, releasing a large amount of energy.
Element 75 (Rhenium): A rare, dense, and high-melting-point transition metal crucial for high-temperature alloys and catalysts.
Hypothesis: A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.