Marie Curie · Science

Breaking the Indestructible Atom

How radioactivity revealed that the atom is neither indivisible nor eternal, and pours out energy from a hidden store no one could explain.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that radium gives off heat continuously without cooling or being fed. Explain why that was such a deep problem for nineteenth-century physics, in your own words.

Leads to Albert Einstein.

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