Nuclear Chemistry Timeline
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è stato aggiornato: 21 nov 2017
Mr. Taylor, 4th Hour, EAHS
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December 31, 1895:
Henri Becquerel discoveres x-raysNovember 8, 1895:
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen theorizes
that fluorescent light shining through
a paper wrapped tube must be the
result of raysDecember 2, 1896:
Marie Curie discoveres
Radium and PlutoniumMay 2, 1908:
Hans Greiger creates the first
alpha decay particle detectorMay 2, 1910:
Marie Curie & Pierre Curie form pure
Radium and document its propertiesMay 2, 1932:
James Chadwick used alpha
particles to discover the neutronSeptember 2, 1939:
Leo Szilard discovers
the nuclear chain conceptMay 2, 1941:
Luis Walter Alvarez discovers that
radar can be used to detect submarinesMay 2, 1942:
Robert Oppenhiemer conducts research
later used to create the atomic bombMay 2, 1946:
Willard Libby theorizes the
basis of carbon datingMay 2, 1955:
Teller, E. and Ulam, S. create the
hydrogen bomb (fusion and fission)January 21, 1954:
The first nuclear submarine,
U.S.S. Nautilus, is launchedPeriodi
Electricity from nuclear fission produced in IdahoThe United States cancels thier neutron bomb program (would destroy life but leave property intact)Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (e=mc^2)
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