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DR. FRANTIŠEK BĚHOUNEK lecturer in radiology at the Charles University of Prague, died at the end of October at the age of fifty. He had been a pupil of Mme. Curie and had developed a method for measuring atmospheric radioactivity. In 1926 he accompanied General Nobile on his ill-fated polar expedition, and when the airship Citta di Milano came to grief they were rescued by the Russian ice-breaker Krassin. Běhounek, with Heyrovsky, wrote the standard Czech text-book of radioactivity
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Obituary. Nature 162, 881 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162881b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162881b0