Berta Karlik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Berta Karlik

Austrian physicist

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1904

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1990

Profession: physician, physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.