The phenomenon of radioactivity was discovered by

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Henry Becquerel

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Marie Curie

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Pierre Curie

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Henry Becquerel

The phenomenon of radioactivity was discovered by Henry Becquerel in 1896. Rutherford later showed that the radiations from the salt were capable of ionizing a gas. A few years later Madam Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie discovered the highly radioactive elements radium and polonium.

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