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The radiation phenomena were discovered towards the end of the nineteenth century, consecutively in the form of X-rays by W. C. Roentgen (1885), uranium radiation by H. Becquerel (1886), and radium radiation by M. S. and P. E. Curie (1888).
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Ochiai, E. (2014). Falsification and Suppression of the Truth. In: Hiroshima to Fukushima. Science Policy Reports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38727-2_18
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