Marie Curie ( 1867 – 1934)
was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner on her first Nobel Prize, making them the first ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
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Cherenkov radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium. A classic example of Cherenkov radiation is the characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor.
The phenomenon is named after Soviet physicist Pavel Cherenkov.
The Frank–Tamm formula yields the amount of Cherenkov radiation emitted on a given frequency as a charged particle moves through a medium at superluminal velocity.
Pavel Cherenkov (1904 - 1990), Igor Tamm (1895 - 1971) and Ilya Frank (1908 - 1990) shared the 1958 Nobel prize in Physics.
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Elise Meitner (1878 – 1968)
was a leading Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission.
While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on radioactivity, she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1917.
In 1938, Meitner and her nephew, the physicist Otto Robert Frisch, discovered nuclear fission.
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