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In 1896, Henri Becquerel in Paris identified a fluorescent compound of uranium which emitted penetrating radiation that produced a photographic image. In 1898, G.C. Schmidt in Germany and Marie Curie in Paris found another element, thorium, with a similar emission. Soon afterwards, Marie and Pierre Curie identified two additional radiation-producing elements, polonium and radium. An unusual characteristic of these elements was that all of them emitted radiation.
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Jayaraman, S., Lanzl, L.H. (2004). Nuclear Transitions and Radioactive Decay. In: Clinical Radiotherapy Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18549-6_4
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