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    Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, who remain famous for their work on radioactivity; physicist Paul Langevin; and virologist Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer...
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    (measures radioactivity) invented by Hans Geiger in 1908 Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium and polonium, they coin the term 'radioactivity'. Third...
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  • (1867–1934): Polish physicist and chemist; pioneer in the field of radioactivity; the first to win two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences: the Nobel...
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