roentgen: discovered x-rays (1895). madame curie(1867-1934) together with her husband pierre, she...
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Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895)
Madame Curie(1867-1934)
Together with her husbandPierre, she discovered bothRadium and Polonium(1898)
Nobel prizes in Physics, and later in Chemistry.
Died of leukemia 1934.
Radioactivedecay sequencefor 238 U to lead
Trinity Test (Alamagordo)
July, 1945
Fission
Trojan nuclear power plant
Chernobyl, 1986
Hydrogen fusion
Fusion
CAT scan
X-ray slices of brain
Positron Emission Tomography(PET): brain images
Litvinenko dying of 210Po
radiation poisoning
Just before
Soon after
Lugovoy: a suspect, andalso contaminated with Po
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Ice-man dated by 14C (~5000 yrs ago)
Carbon dating
Carbon dating
Dead Sea Scrolls(~1800 yrs old)
A ‘Picasso’ 30,000 years ago (Chauvet Cave, Southern France)
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