Noddack

Brigitte Van Tiggelen, a chemistry historian at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, discussed the work of Ida Noddack, a German chemist who discovered rhenium, and Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist who, with Otto Hahn, discovered protactinium.

Ida Noddack, née Tacke, was a chemical engineer who left industry to hunt for missing elements.

Unlike Marie Curie, who was acknowledged in her own right and took up Pierre’s chair at the University of Paris after his death, Ida Noddack worked as a guest in her husband’s laboratory for most of her life.

Ida Noddack pointed out in an article in Angewandte Chemie10 that Fermi had failed to show that no other chemical elements, including lighter ones, had been produced.

The German husband-and-wife team Walter and Ida Noddack claimed to have glimpsed element 43 as part of a nuclear reaction, and named it "masurium" after the Masurian lakes, where Walter was born.