!!!Radiumforschung

Radium research: Soon after radium was discovered (by P. and M. Curie 
in 1898), L. C. Haitinger started the production of radium at the 
Auer Factory in Atzgersdorf near Vienna. H.  Mache, S.  Meyer and M.  
Bamberger examined the emanation content of Austrian mineral springs; 
radium and other similar elements which were necessary for research 
came from St. Joachimsthal (now Jachymev, Czech Republic). 
Austria supported many foreign scientists (e.g. the Curies) by 
providing them with supplies of inexpensive radium. In 1901 the 
Austrian Academy of Sciences set up a commission for the study of 
radioactive substances. The lawyer K. Kupelwieser made a donation 
which made it possible to set up the Institute of Radium Research in 
Vienna in 1910, where important contributions to radium research were 
accomplished; from 1920 to 1938 17 foreign scientists worked at this 
institute. The Institute of Radium Research in Vienna cooperates 
closely with the Research Institute in Bad Gastein (Salzburg), which 
was established in 1936, and with the Second Institute of Physics at 
the University of Vienna.

!Literature
S. Meyer, Die Vorgeschichte der Gruendung und das erste 
Jahrzehnt des Inst. fuer Radiumforschung, 1950; K. Przibram, Das 
Institut fuer Radiumforschung 1920-38, 1950; B. Karlik, Das Institut 
fuer Radiumforschung 1938-50, 1950; R. Schloegl, Gespraech mit 
Dr. F. Hernegger, 2 vols., 1991.


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