!!!Karlik, Berta

Karlik, Berta, b. Vienna, Jan. 24, 1904, d. Vienna, Feb. 4, 
1990, physicist. Studied at the university of Vienna, from 1929 worked 
at the radium institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which was 
under her management from 1945-1975; from 1956 university professor; 
studies of alpha rays, fluorescence phenomena and luminescence 
phenomena (with S. Meyer and K. Przibram). 1942 she proved the natural 
occurrence of the element astatine, atomic number 85, with T. 
Bernert-Cless, closing the last gap in the periodic system.

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Work: F. Exner und sein Kreis, 1975.


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