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Chapter 543 - Chapter 253: Flip It, Flip Anything (8.2K)_3

Of course.

Since we've mentioned Alexander Becquerel, we can't avoid talking about another person:

Madam Curie.

1903.

In recognition of the discovery of radium, the Nobel Prize committee awarded the Nobel Prize to Becquerel and the Curies.

Becquerel was listed first, Pierre Curie—Madam Curie's husband—was second, and Madam Curie herself was third.

And Madam Curie's name was only added thanks to Pierre's strong insistence—Becquerel agreed to it under pressure.

But in reality—

Becquerel's win here had a lot of water in it; he's basically one of the earliest examples of riding on the coattails ("mixed authorship" case).

The reason he got the Nobel Prize was pretty simple:

He discovered natural radioactivity in 1896 and guided subsequent research.

But actually...

Becquerel misidentified the phenomenon as fluorescence, just flat-out ignored it, and in the process of radium's discovery, it was really the Curies who did the heavy lifting.

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