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]] Frederick Soddy ( 2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956 ) was an English Radiochemist . Soddy was born in Eastbourne , England . He went to school at Eastbourne College , before going on to study at University College Of Wales At Aberystwyth and at Merton College, Oxford . He was a researcher at Oxford from 1898 to 1900. He married Winifred Beilby in 1908. In 1900 he became a demonstrator in Chemistry at McGill University in Montreal , Quebec , Canada , where he worked with Ernest Rutherford on Radioactivity . He and Rutherford realized that the anomalous behaviour of radioactive elements was due to the fact that they Decayed into other elements. This decay also produced Alpha , Beta , and Gamma Radiation . When radioactivity was first discovered, no one was sure what the cause was. It needed careful work by Soddy and Rutherford to prove that atomic Transmutation was in fact occurring. His work and essays popularising the new understanding of radioactivity was the main inspiration for H. G. Wells 's '' The World Set Free '' (1914), which features atomic bombs dropped from biplanes in a war set many years in the future. Wells's novel is also known as ''The Last War'' and imagines a peaceful world emerging from the chaos. In ''Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt'' Soddy praises Wells’s ''The World Set Free''. He also says that radioactive processes probably power the stars. |
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