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Pioneers and

History
of
RADIOACTIVITY
Reporters:

Nalzaro
Larong
Santiago
Diaz
Fazon
Paloma
1895
In November, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
discovered X-rays.

1896
At the Museum of Natural History, Henri
Becquerel discovered that the element
uranium emits penetrating radiation (natural
radioactivity).

1897
J.J. Thomson characterized the electron by
measuring its speed and charge-to-mass
ratio, and showed that all atoms contain
electrons.

1898
Pierre and Marie Curie discovered polonium
and radium at the School of Industrial
Physics and Chemistry (EPCI) in Paris. To
determine the atomic mass of radium, the
Curies processed several tonnes of a natural
uranium ore, pitchblende (1 tonne of which
yields 1 to 2 mg of radium chloride). Marie
Curie coined the term radioactivity.

1899
Several scientists demonstrated that
uranium emits two types of radiation. In
January, Ernest Rutherford called them
respectively a and radiation . On 6
November, Pierre and Marie Curie published
a paper in which they reported a singular
property of radium: induced radioactivity.

1900
In April, Paul Villard identified ? radiation.

1901-1904
Jean Perrin (and independently Hantaro
Nagaoka) imagined a representation of
atoms as miniature solar systems.

1901-1903
Ernest Rutherford and Frederic Soddy
demonstrated the period (according to
the law of radioactive decay) that
characterizes each radioactive element.
They showed that radioactivity is the
transmutation of one element into another.

1906
Ernest Rutherford identified a radiation as a
helium particle.

1910
In collaboration with Andr Debierne, Marie
Curie isolated metallic radium and
determined its atomic mass.
1911
Frdric Soddy established the existence of
isotopes. Ernest Rutherford demonstrated
the presence of a nucleus at the center of
the atom.

1913
Niels Bohr worked out a model of the atom
in which electrons orbit the nucleus.

1919
Ernest Rutherford performed the first artificial
nuclear transmutation, by transforming
nitrogen into oxygen through particle
bombardment.

1928
Hans Geiger and Karl Mller developed a
new Geiger-Mller counter (improvement
of the Geiger counter of 1908).
1930
Ernest Lawrence built the first cyclotron at
Berkeley.
1932
James Chadwick demonstrated the
existence of the neutron.
1934
Frdric and Irne Joliot-Curie discovered
artificial radioactivity. They created for the
first time a radioactive element (by
bombarding an aluminium sheet with
particles emitted by polonium), which they
baptized radiophosphorus.
1938
Otto Hahn(the father of nuclear chemistry)
and Fritz Strassmann reported the fission of
uranium.
1939
Frdric Joliot, Hans Halban, Lew Kowarski
and Francis Perrin demonstrated the
possibility of the chain reaction and
therefore of its energy applications (they
showed that fission is accompanied by
great release of energy and by the emission
of neutrons which can break open other
uranium nuclei, and so on).

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