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Nuclear radiation
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goodwin
⟶ Updated 3 Oct 2017 ⟶
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Events
George de Hevesy uses radiation as a tracer
James Chadwick discovers the neutron
First nuclear weapon used against another country
Second nuclear weapon used against Japan
First commercial Nuclear reactor activated in U.S
U.S.S Nautilus launched, first ship nuclear reactor
First commercial nuclear reactor (USSR)
Uranium Discovered by Martin Klaproth
Wilhelm Rontgen discovers ionizing radiation
Henri Becquerel discovers beta radiation and alpha particles
Pierre and Marie Curie name phenomenon "radioactivity"
Radium used for medical treatment
Samuel Prescott destroys bacteria with radiation in food
Ernest Rutherford discovers new elements from radiation.
Ernest Rutherford fires alpha particles into nitrogen, and creates an oxygen atom
Periods
Niels Bohr researches how atoms and electron particles are arranged
