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At the end of the nineteenth century, inorganic chemistry had lost most of its importance as ancestor of all other disciplines in which chemistry was evolving and was at the point of becoming more of an introductory teaching vehicle than a busy line of research as in the past. The study of the individual elements started to appear to the new generations of chemists as poor relative to the two great branches of chemistry, organic and physical chemistry. These instead were witnessing a period of great splendor and intense development, the first thanks to the formidable successes of organic synthesis and the second for the rigorous theoretical organization in which it had framed the structure of the molecules and the identification of their physical properties.

…und nun ging der Teufel los.. (Wilhelm Röntgen)

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Califano, S. (2012). Radioactivity. In: Pathways to Modern Chemical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28180-8_6

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