Stefan Meyer (physicist)

Stefan Meyer
Born(1872-04-27)27 April 1872
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died29 December 1949(1949-12-29) (aged 77)
Bad Ischl, Austria
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
AwardsLieben Prize 1913
Scientific career
Fieldsradioactivity
InstitutionsInstitute for Radium Research
Academic advisorsFranz Serafin Exner

Stefan Meyer (27 April 1872 – 29 December 1949) was an Austrian physicist involved in research on radioactivity. He became director of the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna and received the Lieben Prize in 1913 for his research on radium.[1] He was the brother of Hans Leopold Meyer who was also awarded the Lieben Prize.[2][3][4]

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  3. ^ "Meyer, Stefan". Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Vol. 1. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1957. ISBN 3-7001-1327-7.
  4. ^ Helmut Rechenberg (1994), "Meyer, Stefan", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 321–322