Theory Quote by Bill Nye

Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. … The conclusion is drawn…

— Ernest Rutherford

Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was…

— Eve Curie

“Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,”

— Jerome Pohlen

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to…

— Marie Curie

“When rocks are liquid or nearly liquid, what geologists call plastic, they contain a certain amount of rubidium and a certain amount of strontium.…

— Bill Nye

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very…

— Frederic Joliot-Curie

“Radioactive elements in chemistry can be compared to magical knights of old, wielding powerful transformations to release energy, essential in technologies from nuclear power…

— Sybrina Durant

O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium…

— Lise Meitner

“About 98% of the atoms in the human body are renewed each year. This surprising fact is discussed by Dr. Paul C. Aebersold of…

— Douglas E. Richards

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element,…

— Enrico Fermi

The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which we propose…

— Marie Curie

“she’s not the most stable isotope in the lab”

— Rysa Walker