Hilde Levi

Hilde Levi was a GermanDanish physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she became a scientific historian, and published a biography of George de Hevesy.

Hilde Levi was born in Frankfurt, Germany, onMay 1909, the daughter of Adolf Levi, the sales director of a metal company, and his wife Clara , the daughter of a printer. Hilde had an older brother called Edwin. She was a gifted musician who learned to play the piano at a young age. During the summers, she would listen to performances at her cousins summer house in Bavaria by musicians including Elisabeth Schumann and Richard Strauss.

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