Where did George de Hevesy conduct much of his research?
Stockholm
London
New York
Paris
Answer
Stockholm served as the primary location for George de Hevesy's groundbreaking research. The Swedish capital provided him with access to the resources and facilities of the Nobel Institute for Physics, where he conducted his seminal work on radioactive isotopes. This research laid the foundation for the field of nuclear chemistry and earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943.
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