Friedrich Otto Giesel

1852-1927

 

	He was a research scientist at the Quinine Works of Braunschweig, Germany. Although Giesel discovered actinium three years after Debierne, he is considered an independent discoverer of the element (in 1902). Giesel discovered that a magnet deflects beta rays.

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