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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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Amlan Ray
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India

Abstract


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.

Keywords


Radioactivity, Half-Life, Radium.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2018%2Fv32%2Fi1%2F171215