In 1897, together with the "discovery" of electron, radioactivity
emerges - atom has components!
Industrious PhD (she) student![](../images/Ula-s.jpg) ![](../images/curie1-s.jpg) Future
science candidates
The Law of Radioactive Decay
Original
instruments used by Joliot-Curie for artificial radiactivity
studies
[Science Museum, Londyn]
Fortitous coincidence
Replica
of Rutherford's apparatus with which he showed that
alpha particles were helium nuclei. A copy made in Cambridge
in 1998.
[Forum der
Technic, Deutsche Museum, Monachium]
A
particle from wax Original
Chadwick's instruments for studies of neutrons
[Deutsche Museum, Monachium]
Whisky and water
Fermi and golden fishes
Wilson's chamber, for studies of particle paths
[Science Museum,
Londyn]
Faster and faster
Linear
accelerators![](../images/fl-pl.gif)
Synchrotron
in Trieste
First
English synchrotron from Cambridge (1937)
[Science Museum, Londyn]
Pauli and n(o)eutrinos
Let's get to the island Nuclear
models
Does the world turn right?
How, on Tuesday, we
broke the parity [A story by Leon Ledermann]![](../images/fl-pl.gif)
Does the world turn right (II)
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