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Also Known As	isotopic labeling

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radioactive isotope tracer transuranium element tritium uranium-235 carbon-14 cobalt-60

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Inside the body: From radioactive tracers to fluorescent proteins

Georg Charles von Hevesy

Hungarian-Swedish chemist

Friedrich Adolf Paneth

Austrian chemist

Rudolf Schoenheimer

German biochemist