Roentgen: discovered X-rays (1895)
Madame Curie( ) Together with her husband Pierre, she discovered both Radium and Polonium (1898) Nobel prizes in Physics, and later in Chemistry. Died of leukemia 1934.
Radioactive decay sequence for 238 U to lead
Trinity Test (Alamagordo) July, 1945 Fission Trojan nuclear power plant
Chernobyl, 1986
Hydrogen fusion
FusionFusion Fusion Fusion
CAT scan X-ray slices of brain
Positron Emission Tomography(PET): brain images
Litvinenko dying of 210 Po radiation poisoning Just before Soon after
Lugovoy: a suspect, and also contaminated with Po
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Ice-man dated by 14 C (~5000 yrs ago) Carbon dating
Dead Sea Scrolls (~1800 yrs old)
A ‘Picasso’ 30,000 years ago (Chauvet Cave, Southern France)