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Great Contributions of Marie Curie in the Twentieth Century Physics
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Madame Curie is very well known as a great chemist who discovered radium and won Nobel Prize. Her contributions in Physics are generally not so well-known and much less appreciated. I discuss here Marie Curie’s quantitative work on natural radioactivity and her interpretations that revolutionized Physics of that era and played a very important role in the birth of modern Nuclear Physics.
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Radioactivity, Half-Life, Radium.
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- Eve Curie, Madame Curie, A biography, Country Life Press, New York, USA, 1937.
- M. Sklodowska Curie, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sciences 126, 1101 (1898).
- P. Curie and M. Curie, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sciences 127, 175 (1898).
- P. Curie, M. Curie and G. Bemont, Comptes Rendus Acd. Sciences 127, 1215 (1898).
- www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/press.html.
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