Impossible Chemistry

Impossible Chemistry

1895

Wilhelm Röentgen, a German mechanical engineer, discovered the x-ray, which was soon after used put to use in the medical field.

Impossible Chemistry

1903

Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel won the Nobel Prize in Physics. This was when Marie Curie coined the term radioactive.

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1911

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of polonium and radium.
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1933

Tho-Radia, a brand of French radioactive beauty products, was launched by Dr. Alfred Curie and Alexis Moussali.

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1937

Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, German scientists, were able to use neutrons to split the nucleus of a uranium atom, which released energy; people began trying to convert that released energy into bombs.