# #Mon Aug 09 12:00:48 CEST 2010 Text__-6kM8KOcEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Radiant Minerals Text__-6kM8KOcEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

Henri Becquerel discovers in 1896 that uranium ore emits a previously unknown kind of radiation. In 1898, the Curies isolate a new element, radium, from uranium ore. The radium emits strong radiation. Thirty years later, Hans Geiger and Walther M\u00FCller invent a detector that allows particles of radioactive radiation to be heard and counted.