Nuclear Chemistry Timeline

December 31, 1895: Henri Becquerel discoveres x-rays

November 8, 1895: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen theorizes that fluorescent light shining through a paper wrapped tube must be the result of rays

December 2, 1896: Marie Curie discoveres Radium and Plutonium

May 2, 1908: Hans Greiger creates the first alpha decay particle detector

May 2, 1910: Marie Curie & Pierre Curie form pure Radium and document its properties

May 2, 1932: James Chadwick used alpha particles to discover the neutron

September 2, 1939: Leo Szilard discovers the nuclear chain concept

May 2, 1941: Luis Walter Alvarez discovers that radar can be used to detect submarines

May 2, 1942: Robert Oppenhiemer conducts research later used to create the atomic bomb

May 2, 1946: Willard Libby theorizes the basis of carbon dating

May 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 launched

Electricity from nuclear fission produced in Idaho

The United States cancels thier neutron bomb program (would destroy life but leave property intact)

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (e=mc^2)