Soddy wrote in popular magazines that radioactivity was a potentially “ inexhaustible ” source of energy, and offered a vision of an atomic future where it would be possible to “ transform a desert continent, thaw the frozen poles, and make the whole earth one smiling Garden of Eden .” The promise of an “ atomic age ,” with nuclear energy as the global, utopian technology for the satisfaction of human needs, has been a recurring theme ever since.

While experimenting with the products of radioactive decay, in 1913 radiochemist Frederick Soddy discovered that there appeared to be more than one type of atom at each position on the periodic table.

Soddy was born at 6 Bolton Road, Eastbourne, England.

In 1903, with Sir William Ramsay at University College London, Soddy verified that the decay of radium produced alpha particles composed of positively charged nuclei of helium.

From 1904 to 1914, Soddy was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow and while there he showed that uranium decays to radium.

This was discovered at about the same time by Kazimierz Fajans, and is known as the radioactive displacement law of Fajans and Soddy, a fundamental step toward understanding the relationships among families of radioactive elements.

In May 1910 Soddy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society In 1914 he was appointed to a chair at the University of Aberdeen, where he worked on research related to World War I.

The lunar crater Soddy is named after him, as is the uranium compound Soddyite, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Frederick Soddy ( 2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956 ) was an English radiochemist and monetary economist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.

It needed careful work by Soddy and Rutherford to prove that atomic transmutation was in fact occurring.

In four books written from 1921 to 1934, Soddy carried on a " quixotic campaign for a radical restructuring of global monetary relationships ", offering a perspective on economics rooted in physics — the laws of thermodynamics, in particular — and was " roundly dismissed as a crank ".

The City was formed in 1969 when the communities of Soddy and Daisy, along with nearby developed areas along U. S. Highway 27, merged to form Soddy-Daisy.

Additional work by Rutherford and Soddy showed that the same emission came from both thorium and radium, that it was a gas, and that it was actually a new element.

In 1901, Frederick Soddy and Ernest Rutherford discovered that radioactivity was part of the process by which atoms changed from one kind to another, involving the release of energy.

Afterwards Fajans was working on the electrochemical properties of elements as a result of the radioactive changes, and he formulated the law of the radioactive shifts which was later named the radioactive displacement law of Fajans and Soddy ( Frederick Soddy received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1921 for his isotopic research ).

The kissing circles in this problem are sometimes known as Soddy circles, perhaps because Soddy chose to publish his version of the theorem in the form of a poem titled The Kiss Precise, which was printed in Nature ( June 20, 1936 ).

The generalization to n dimensions is sometimes referred to as the Soddy – Gosset theorem, even though it was shown by R. Lachlan in 1886.

In 1913, Soddy also showed that an atom moves lower in atomic number by two places on alpha emission, higher by one place on beta emission.

He then returned to University College London and worked on the characterisation of radon with William Ramsay, with whom he succeeded in isolating it in 1910, and Frederick Soddy.

* 1921: Soddy receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry " for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances and investigations into isotopes ".

* Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt, a book by Nobel prize-winning chemist Frederick Soddy on monetary policy and society and the role of energy in economic systems.

Still a work-in-progress, approximately 175 mi ( 282 km ) of hikeable trail are ready for hiking in the Cumberland Mountain segment above La Follette and Jacksboro and in the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park ; the Smoky Mountain segment in Campbell County ; the Frozen Head segment in Morgan County ; the Obed Wild and Scenic River segment in the Obed Wild and Scenic River and Catoosa Wildlife Management Area ; the Grassy Cove segment on Black and Brady mountains in Cumberland County ; the Rock Creek, Possum Creek, Soddy Creek, and North Chickamauga segments in Hamilton County ; and the Tennessee River Gorge segment in Prentice Cooper State Forest.

Soddy is an eroded lunar impact crater lying on the far side of the Moon, invisible from the Earth, to the south-southeast of the prominent crater King.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Soddy.

In Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt Soddy praises Wells ’ s The World Set Free.

The kissing circles in this problem are sometimes known as Soddy circles.

Soddy married Winifred Beilby, the daughter of Sir George Beilby, in 1908.

* The Role of Money, Frederick Soddy ( George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1934.

* 1877 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1956 )

* September 22 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1877 )

* September 2 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1956 )

Merton alumni include four Nobel prize winners: poet T. S. Eliot, physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and chemist Frederick Soddy.

At one time locals of Soddy also referred to the area immediately surrounding the train depot as " Rathburn.

Most important, each year from 1907 until James's death in 1910, James wrote to his friends in the Boston intelligentsia to request financial aid for Peirce ; the fund continued even after James died.

He wrote to Burghley, enumerating years of fruitless attempts to amend his financial situation and complained: ' This last year past I have been a suitor to her Majesty that I might farm her tins, giving £ 3000 a year more than she had made.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

Alice Chambers Bunten wrote in her Life of Alice Barnham that, upon their descent into debt, she actually went on trips to ask for financial favours and assistance from their circle of friends.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating that new central bank regulations, allowing political intervention, " seriously harm " Hungary's interests, postponing talks on a financial aid package.

Friedman wrote extensively on the Great Depression, which he termed the Great Contraction, arguing that it had been caused by an ordinary financial shock whose duration and seriousness were greatly increased by the subsequent contraction of the money supply caused by the misguided policies of the directors of the Federal Reserve.

Simon Johnson wrote that " the reemergence of an American financial oligarchy is quite recent ," a structure which he delineated as being the " most advanced " in the world.

The New York Times wrote in 1964 that, just as Wall Street gave its name to the New York financial world, Scotland Yard did the same for police activity in London.

Gladstone wrote in 1859 to his brother who was a member of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool: " Economy is the first and great article ( economy such as I understand it ) in my financial creed.

Davis was accepted by the Hamilton College Junior Year in France Program and, she wrote in her autobiography, she managed to talk Brandeis into extending financial support via her scholarship.

In 1971, the White House requested an audit of the tax return of the editor of Newsday, after he wrote a series of articles about the financial dealings of a friend of the President's.

In 1835 alone, due to one of his many times of financial difficulty, he wrote four articles for the Monde dramatique, twelve for the Gazette, nineteen for the Débats and thirty-seven for the Rénovateur.

Biographer Carolly Erickson wrote, “ In choosing her lovers Rose followed her head first, then her heart ”, meaning that she was adept in terms of identifying the men who were most capable of fulfilling her financial and social needs.

With Russell's encouragement and financial backing, Barbour wrote an outline of their views in Three Worlds and the Harvest of This World, published in 1877.

Forbes wrote an article in late 1997 calling the Lightning a financial nightmare, with a debt equal to a staggering 236 % of its value — the highest of any major North American sports franchise.

His father's financial success ensured that the young Renoir was educated at fashionable boarding schools, from which, as he later wrote, he continually ran away.

The historian Doris Stenton wrote that the Pipe Rolls, or financial records, during Walter's time as justiciar " give the impression of a country taxed to the limit ".

She wrote countless letters on his behalf and knocked on any doors that could provide Henry with financial assistance or a publishing deal.

Lawrence White and Jerry Markham rejected these claims and argued that products linked to the financial crisis were not regulated by Glass-Steagall or were available from commercial banks or their affiliates before the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall sections 20 and 32. Alan Blinder wrote in 2009 that he had “ yet to hear a good answer ” to the question “ what bad practices would have been prevented if Glass-Steagall was still on the books ?” Blinder argued that “ disgraceful ” mortgage underwriting standards “ did not rely on any new GLB powers ,” that “ free-standing investment banks ” not the “ banking-securities conglomerates ” permitted by the GLBA were the major producers of “ dodgy MBS ,” and that he could not “ see how this crisis would have been any milder if GLB had never passed .” Similarly, Melanie Fein has written that the financial crisis “ was not a result of the GLBA ” and that the “ GLBA did not authorize any securities activities that were the cause of the financial crisis .” Fein noted “ ecuritization was not an activity authorized by the GLBA but instead had been held by the courts in 1990 to be part of the business of banking rather than an activity proscribed by the Glass-Steagall Act .” As described above, in 1978 the OCC approved a national bank securitizing residential mortgages.

Carl Felsenfeld and David L. Glass wrote that “ he public — which for this purpose includes most of the members of Congress ” does not understand that the investment banks and other “ shadow banking ” firms that experienced “ runs ” precipitating the financial crisis ( i. e., AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch ) never became “ financial holding companies ” under the GLBA and, therefore, never exercised any new powers available through Glass-Steagall “ repeal .” They joined Jonathan R. Macey and Peter J. Wallison in noting many GLBA critics do not understand that Glass-Steagall ’ s restrictions on banks ( i. e., Sections 16 and 21 ) remained in effect and that only the affiliation provisions in Sections 20 and 32 were repealed by the GLBA.

Senators Jeff Merkley ( D-OR ) and Carl Levin ( D-MI ) have written that “ proprietary trading losses ” played “ a central role in bringing the financial system to its knees .” They wrote that the Volcker Rule ’ s proprietary trading ban contained in statutory language they proposed is a “ modern Glass-Steagall ” because Glass-Steagall was both “ over-inclusive ” ( in prohibiting some “ truly client-oriented activities that could be managed by developments in securities and banking law ”) and “ under-inclusive ” in failing to cover derivatives trading.