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History of Nuclear Engineering Part 1: Radioactivity
For just over years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Martin Pitt charts their emergence
IN THE chemistry lab, I sometimes admired uranium solutions when sunlight caught the bottle, giving a green fluorescence to the yellow liquid. A similar effect was exploited by Czech glassmakers with the same colours. They added some useless black rock the miners called pechblende (bad luck ore) found among the silver ore at Joachimsthal (Jáchymov today). Known as pitchblende in English, its key component is uranium oxide. This art glass was popular in North America and Europe in the 19th and early 20th century, being particularly striking under ultraviolet light.
In , German chemist Martin Klaproth (–) determined that pitchblende contained a new element, which he called uranium, after the planet Uranus, discovered in He also experimented with it in glass, probably provoking the trend.
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Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who investigated uranium and other substances which led to his upptäckt of radioactivity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in , which he shared with physicists Pierre and Marie Curie.
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EARLY LIFE & FAMILY
- Antoine Henri Becquerel was born on December 15, , in Paris, Fra
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File:Portrait of Antoine-Henri
DescriptionPortrait of Antoine-Henri Creator/Photographer: Paul Nadar Birth Date: Death Date:
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Collection: Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology - As a supplement to the Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology's collection of written works by scientists, engineers, natural philosophers, and inventors, the library also has a collection of thousands of portraits of these individuals. The portraits come in a variety of formats: drawings, woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and photographs, all collected by donor Bern Dibner. Presented here are a few photos from the collection, from the late 19th and early 20th century.
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