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One Hundred Years Ago in Spine …

David Fardon

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The 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Antoine Becquerel (1852–1908), Marie Curie (1867–1934) and Pierre Curie (1859–1906). Marie Curie won a second Nobel Prize, for Chemistry, in 1911. They isolated radium from the study of pitchblend, a material rich in uranium and thorium, and showed it to be extremely radioactive.1, 2

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1. 1 Becquerel AH. Sur les radiations émisesparphosphorescence. CR Acad Sci (Paris). 1896;10:420–421.

2. 2 Curie P, Curie MS. Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, continue dans la pitchblend. CR Acad Sci (Paris). 1898;127:175–178 ,1215–7.

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