Question

Marie Curie and her husband Pierre were Henri Becquerel's graduate students when Becquerel discovered spontaneous radiation. In 1903, the Curies shared the Nobel prize for physics with Becquerel. Based on The Discovery of Radioactivity, which statement best describes Becquerel's influence on Marie Curie's work with radioactivity?

Answer 1

C

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Answer 2

Answer: Marie Curie's work with Becquerel made her more curious and prompted her to research and experiment with radioactivity.

Step-by-step explanation:

Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who in 1896 discovered a new property of matter (which was later called radioactivity). This was accidentally observed when Becquerel found out that uranium salt was spontaneously emitting some kind of rays that went through different substances and were able to veil even a photographic film.

Then Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie carried out more experiments to study, in a quantitative way, the radiation emitted by the salts Becquerel studied cualitatively, and other salts that contained uranium. During this process they found other radioactive substances, such as: thorium, polonium and radium.

For that reason, the three of them were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their discovery of radioactivity.