Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

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A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

While the chemistry awards are sometimes overshadowed by the physics prize and its famous winners such as Albert Einstein, chemistry laureates include many scientific greats, including radioactivity ...

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Irene Curie, daughter of Marie, and Irene's husband, Frederick Joliot, had pointed out the phenomena in which Chadwick had recognized evidence of the neutron. Although they missed that discovery, ...

Right around the time Madame Curie got interested in uranic rays, Ernest Rutherford, who was then in Canada, also got interested, and was doing a lot of experiments and trying to figure out what ...

Two women from Greater Belfast were honoured at Hillsborough Castle today for their services to Marie Curie and palliative care patients in Northern Ireland.

Building on Curie's work, Ernest Rutherford famously argued at a 1904 academic lecture (attended by Kelvin!) that radioactivity was the unknown energy source Kelvin had suggested.

Keywords Wilhelm Röntgen, X-rays, cathode rays, fluorescence, Henri Becquerel, uranium, radioactivity, Marie Curie, polonium, radium, Ernest Rutherford, alpha rays, beta rays, gamma rays ...