2007-02-26 21:24:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Marie and Pierre Curie were the discoverers of radium, which is a fission product of uranium. As such, they conducted the first experiments on Earth involving nuclear reactions. It was Marie, a Polish person, who figured out what was going on and she later named the element polonium after her country of origin.
She later died of radiation poisoning.
2007-02-26 22:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first true nuclear reaction was carried out by Otto Hahn and colleagues in Germany around 1934. He discovered fission when bombarding nuclei with neutrons.
2007-02-27 06:29:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Madame Curie coined the term radioactivity
2007-02-27 05:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
contrary to popular belief, it was actually lise meitner who was the first to discover nuclear fission. that otto guy is the one who is normally credited to that discovery, but he actually did very little in the whole process and stole the discovery from the jewish and female and german lise.
2007-02-27 11:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by Shellular Kellular 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First ever? Don't know that, but I believe the first controlled reactor award goes to Enrico Fermi.
2007-02-27 05:28:18 · answer #5 · answered by ZORCH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What? not einstien?
2007-02-27 06:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by adi hizami (GreyKing) 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋