Radioactive Decay

Resources

• Historical
  • Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium. Nanny Fröman. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  • Marie Curie and the NBS Radium Standards. Bert & Johnathan Coursey. National Institute of Standards & Technology.
  • Radioactivity is 100 Years Old. Didier Verkindt. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules.
  • Versuch einer Theorie der β-Strahlen, I. Enrico Fermi. Zeitschrift für Physik. Vol. 88 No. 3–4 (1934) 161–177.
  • Fermi's Theory of Beta Decay. Fred L. Wilson. American Journal of Physics. Vol. 36 No. 12 (1968): 1150–1160. English translation of Fermi's landmark 1934 paper.
• tracers
  • Cold war, hot secret: Behind the Berlin Wall, radioactive tags were used to track dissidents. New Scientist (2001).
• Miscellaneous
  • A New Radioactivity [6p 8n]. Nigel Bunce & Jim Hunt. The Science Corner. No. 31 (1984).
• Video on demand
  • The Most Radioactive Places on Earth. Derek Muller. Veritasium. YouTube (2014). I'm filming a documentary for TV about how uranium and radioactivity have shaped the modern world.
  • Marie Curie: A Life of Sacrifice and Achievement. Simon Whistler. Biographics. YouTube (2018). Marie Curie's discoveries in radiation changed the world. She became one of the most important women in science and her research is still important to scientists and doctors today.