George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
George Charles de Hevesy (Hungarian: Hevesy György Károly, German: Georg Karl von Hevesy; 1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.