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Becquerel's blunder.(radioactivity discovery)(Henri Becquerel)

From: Social Research  |  Date: 3/22/2005  |  Author: Badash, Lawrence

INTRODUCTION

THE DISCOVERY BY WILHELM CONRAD RONTGEN OF X-RAYS IN LATE 1895 was the most globally astonishing scientific event prior to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. * Some 50 books and pamphlets and 1,000 papers on X-rays were published in 1896 alone, remarkable testimony to the impact of these penetrating rays. (1)

By contrast, Henri Becquerel, who discovered radioactivity just a few months later, wrote seven papers on the subject in 1896, only two ...

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