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Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895). Madame Curie(1867-1934) Together with her husband Pierre, she discovered both Radium and Polonium (1898) Nobel prizes.

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1 Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895)

2 Madame Curie(1867-1934) Together with her husband Pierre, she discovered both Radium and Polonium (1898) Nobel prizes in Physics, and later in Chemistry. Died of leukemia 1934.

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5 Radioactive decay sequence for 238 U to lead

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8 Trinity Test (Alamagordo) July, 1945 Fission Trojan nuclear power plant

9 Chernobyl, 1986

10 Hydrogen fusion

11 FusionFusion Fusion Fusion

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14 CAT scan X-ray slices of brain

15 Positron Emission Tomography(PET): brain images

16 Litvinenko dying of 210 Po radiation poisoning Just before Soon after

17 Lugovoy: a suspect, and also contaminated with Po

18 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

19 Ice-man dated by 14 C (~5000 yrs ago) Carbon dating

20 Dead Sea Scrolls (~1800 yrs old)

21 A ‘Picasso’ 30,000 years ago (Chauvet Cave, Southern France)


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