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Page 1: Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895). Madame Curie(1867-1934) Together with her husband Pierre, she discovered both Radium and Polonium (1898) Nobel prizes

Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895)

Page 2: Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895). Madame Curie(1867-1934) Together with her husband Pierre, she discovered both Radium and Polonium (1898) Nobel prizes

Madame Curie(1867-1934)

Together with her husbandPierre, she discovered bothRadium and Polonium(1898)

Nobel prizes in Physics, and later in Chemistry.

Died of leukemia 1934.

Page 3: Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895). Madame Curie(1867-1934) Together with her husband Pierre, she discovered both Radium and Polonium (1898) Nobel prizes
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Radioactivedecay sequencefor 238 U to lead

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Trinity Test (Alamagordo)

July, 1945

Fission

Trojan nuclear power plant

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Chernobyl, 1986

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Hydrogen fusion

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Fusion

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CAT scan

X-ray slices of brain

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Positron Emission Tomography(PET): brain images

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Litvinenko dying of 210Po

radiation poisoning

Just before

Soon after

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Lugovoy: a suspect, andalso contaminated with Po

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

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Ice-man dated by 14C (~5000 yrs ago)

Carbon dating

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Carbon dating

Dead Sea Scrolls(~1800 yrs old)

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A ‘Picasso’ 30,000 years ago (Chauvet Cave, Southern France)