Nuclear World Midterm questions with correct answers

Short Term vs. Long Term causes of Hiroshima CORRECT ANSWER Short Term: concerns with Japanese resistance and the want for a quick end to WW2 Long Term: Modernity, Industrialization and the Rise of the Machines and mass production; The "Visible Hand" of the working class and the emergence of bureaucracy (and compartmentalization); Population Expansion; Modernity of Science Henri Becquerel CORRECT ANSWER 19th century French physicist studying different minerals that glow in the dark; he wrapped photographic plate in black paper and set it against a substance containing uranium. When light passed through the black paper the photographic plates had large black prints; huge discovery that shows something is special about uranium Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen CORRECT ANSWER 19th century German experimenting with light rays; used Crookes tube and wrapped it in black cardboard and saw a fluorescent green light → called it the X ray; discovered this new ray that penetrates through covers Marie Curie CORRECT ANSWER Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two Nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity. She is most famous for discovering and isolating radium which is more radioactive than uranium. Played an important role in discovering natural radioactivity; died of r