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What share of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics did Henri Becquerel receive?

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one half

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What is the English title of Marie Curie's 1903 doctoral thesis?

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Research on Radioactive Substances

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Who presented Marie Curie's April 1898 paper on uranium rays to the Académie des Sciences?

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Gabriel Lippmann

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At the 1910 meeting defining the curie, Marie Curie insisted it equal the activity of how much radium?

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one gram

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Which element chemically resembles radium, making radium separation difficult?

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barium

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Which element chemically resembles polonium, helping Curie separate it from ore?

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bismuth

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Which mineral did Marie Curie find to be twice as active as uranium itself?

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chalcolite

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Which German chemist discovered thorium's radioactivity two months before Marie Curie?

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Gerhard Carl Schmidt

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Which element's radioactivity did Marie Curie observe in 1898 besides uranium?

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thorium

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What did Marie Curie call the rays emitted by uranium compounds?

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Becquerel rays

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Which uranium compound was used in Becquerel's accidental dark-drawer experiment?

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potassium uranyl sulfate

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Which French institution received Becquerel's first 1896 reports on uranium rays?

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French Academy of Sciences

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