The statement quoted below appears in the NASA site, and I think it's incorrect. Wasn't the real "accident" a case of too much cloud cover one day in Paris? Paul Frame, are you out there to adjudicate here?
Bruce Heinmiller
heinmillerb@aecl.ca
"Photographic emulsions are the world's oldest radiation detection technique, dating back to 1896 when Henri Becquerel discovered radiation when he accidentally left a piece of uranium ore atop some fresh film."
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Subject: FW: North by Northwest to Catch a Neutrino in the Act
This might be of some interest to Radsafers.
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Subject: North by Northwest to Catch a Neutrino in the Act
NASA Space Science News for August 30, 1999
Film emulsions may help determine if elusive particles change "flavor"
as they travel: A century-old radiation detection tool may be pressed into
service to see if neutrinos change flavor. The answer may change our models
of
subatomic particles and the universe. Full Story at
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