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 * Wilhelm Roentgen** (1845-1923)- a German scientist who, in December 1895, discovered X-rays which then stimulated the exploration of radioactivity soon after.
 * Ernest Rutherford**(1871-1937)- New Zealand-born but of British heritage. In 1902 he formulated the 'half-life' of a radioactive element and explained that the cause of radiation is the disintigration of atoms in radioactive materials. He also discovered that there are three types of radiation: alpha, beta, and gamma, but gamma is the most harmful.
 * Max Planck** (1858-1947)- German, studied the "articulation of quantum energy", energy comes in a series of quantities, it's not a continuous stream.
 * Marie Curie** (1869-1934)- Born in Poland but worked in France for most of her life. She discovered the element radium for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. She eventually died from all the radiation she was exposed to during her studies. Random fact- her husband, Pierre, did not die from radiation, but from being run over by a wagon in 1906.
 * JJ Thompson** (1856-1940)- English physicist, discovered the electron, received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics.
 * Albert Einstein** (1875-1955)- German scientist, published papers about relativity that explain that time and space exist as a combined continuum, not separately. Random Fact- his brain was 15% wider than a normal human brain.

~Meriel