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Prelude: Beta-Spectrum Research in the Pre-Nuclear Years, 1900–1911

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In retrospect, Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity in 1896 was one of the landmarks in the history of physics, and it may be said to constitute the birth of nuclear physics, even if the existence of an atomic nucleus was far from being a subject of discussion then.

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Jensen, C., Aaserud, F., Kragh, H., Rüdinger, E., Stuewer, R.H. (2000). Prelude: Beta-Spectrum Research in the Pre-Nuclear Years, 1900–1911. In: Aaserud, F., Kragh, H., Rüdinger, E., Stuewer, R.H. (eds) Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911–1934. Science Networks · Historical Studies, vol 24. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8444-0_1

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