Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor

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English chemist pioneered modern atomic theory

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The Periodic System between Chemistry and Physics
In the 1920s the periodic system turned out to be a macroscopic representation of the internal structure of the atoms – making it as much about physics as it is about chemistry

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