The Origins of Nuclear Physics
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Who discovered nuclear radiation by accident in 1896?

  • Marie Curie
  • Pierre Curie
  • Antoine Henri Becquerel (correct)
  • Ernest Rutherford

    • What did Ernest Rutherford and associates find about nuclei in 1911?

  • Nuclei are incredibly dense and distinct from any macroscopic object (correct)
  • Nuclei are composed of energy
  • Nuclei are similar to macroscopic objects
  • Nuclei are unstable and constantly emitting radiation

    • What did Marie Curie and her husband isolate from pitchblende in 1898?

  • Helium and neon
  • Uranium and thorium
  • Polonium and radium (correct)
  • Plutonium and cesium

    • What is the term for the emission of particles or photons from an atom's nucleus?

    <p>Radioactivity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who proposed the special theory of relativity in 1905, which explained the origin of energy as the destruction of a tiny amount of mass?

    <p>Albert Einstein</p> Signup and view all the answers

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