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How Cloudy Weather and a Drawer Led to the Discovery of Radioactivity
Original: In 1896, Cloudy Weather Ruined A Physicist's Experiment, So He Left It In A Drawer. When He Opened It, He Had Discovered Radioactivity
The story of Henri Becquerel's accidental 1896 discovery of radioactivity is recirculating. Hoping to study X-rays via sunlight on uranium salts, he was thwarted by overcast Paris skies, put his plates away in a drawer, and later found they had exposed themselves, revealing a new form of radiation and opening the door to nuclear physics.
Why now: The tale of a lucky accident behind a major scientific discovery keeps drawing interest from readers of popular science stories.
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- In 1896, Cloudy Weather Ruined A Physicist's Experiment, So He Left It In A Drawer. When He Opened It, He Had Discovered Radioactivity · Futura, le média qui explore le monde
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