https://ilearnedthistoday.com/how-does-radiation-sickness-happen/ Find out something you never knew every day. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:34:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://ilearnedthistoday.com/how-does-radiation-sickness-happen/#comment-52 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:26:12 +0000 https://ilearnedthistoday.com/?p=1487#comment-52 […] obviously has its downsides. The fuel is hazardous when mined and the nuclear waste remains highly radioactive for potentially millions of years. There is also the potential for a meltdown. If something breaks […]

]]> https://ilearnedthistoday.com/how-does-radiation-sickness-happen/#comment-50 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:08:46 +0000 https://ilearnedthistoday.com/?p=1487#comment-50 […] Ionizing radiation was discovered in 1895. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered that rays coming off a vacuum tube could penetrate a screen and react with a barium solution. He called them “X-Rays”. He meant to come up with a name for them later, but the term X-ray has stuck. In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium salts gave off rays as well. He worked out that the rays were being emitted by the uranium itself. Marie Curie was Henri Becquerel’s doctoral student.  She spent the majority of her life researching radioactivity. She came up with the word “radiation” and she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and also the first woman to win it twice. Her study into radiation cost her her life in 1934. Marie Curie warned against using radiation because its effects on the human body were not well known. Nikola Tesla used X-rays on his fingers and noted that it caused burns, but he put that down to ozone. Hermann Joseph Meller published a study that radiation caused genetic effects and increased risk of cancer in 1927. In the early 20th century, a lot of tonics with radioactive substances in them were marketed for their health benefits. […]

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