stackyFACTSThe atomic age wasn’t born in a sterile, ultra-funded lab; it was born because Paris had garbage weather.
The atomic age wasn’t born in a sterile, ultra-funded lab; it was born because Paris had garbage weather. Henri Becquerel was trying to test uranium's interaction with sunlight, but it was too cloudy. Annoyed, he shoved the rocks into a dark drawer with some wrapped photographic plates. Days later, he found the plates inexplicably fogged up, accidentally discovering spontaneous radioactivity just because he couldn't go outside.
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