Marie Curie · Science
How Marie Curie turned a stray glow from uranium into a whole new science, and proved the radiation came from inside the atom.
You learned that Curie measured radiation and found it depended only on how much uranium was present. Explain why that single fact pointed to the atom as the source, in your own words.
Leads to Ernest Rutherford.
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