Word: becquerel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With hindsight it is plain to modern scientists that classical physics was dodging issues. It had nothing to say about X rays (discovered by Röntgen in 1895) or about radioactivity (Becquerel, 1896). Yet these were no small shadow patches. They were signposts pointing to a new world of knowledge...