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This blue commemorative plaque records: Frederick Soddy, 1877‒1956, educated at Eastbourne College, Nobel laureate 1921, for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of radioactivity Recorded plaque organisation: Institute of Physics.
Frederick Soddy was a British chemist and economist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921 for his work on radioactivity, including the discovery of isotopes and the concept of nuclear chains. His research significantly advanced the field of atomic science and contributed to the development of nuclear physics.
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