THE DISCOVERY OF URANIC RAYS - A SHORT STEP FOR BECQUEREL,HENRI BUT AGIANT STEP FOR SCIENCE

Authors
GENET M
Citation
M. Genet, THE DISCOVERY OF URANIC RAYS - A SHORT STEP FOR BECQUEREL,HENRI BUT AGIANT STEP FOR SCIENCE, Radiochimica Acta, 70-1, 1995, pp. 3-12
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Radiochimica Acta → ACNP
ISSN journal
00338230
Volume
70-1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
3 - 12
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-8230(1995)70-1:<3:TDOUR->2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
In March 1896, Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. This success is largely due to a tradition of high-level scientific researc h which prevailed over three generations in the Becquerel family. The circumstances of the discovery and the controversies which followed ar e reviewed within the framework of their scientific and historical con text.