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from: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230907-the-fear-of-a-nuclear-fire-that-would-consume-earth
Marie Curie’s revelations about radioactivity in the early 1900s helped change the course of human history.
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Scientific instruments in the 1900’s are as inscrutable as the scientific instruments now. Definitely not your basic chemistry set.
Could she be the only Nobel prize winner whose children went on to win a Nobel prize too?
I think there have been a few more. William Henry Bragg & his son Lawrence Bragg. Niels Bohr & his son Aage Bohr. And more…