The formal discovery of the element was made in 1895 by two Swedish chemists, Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langlet, who found helium emanating from the uranium ore cleveite.

Chemical separation of the new formed elements from the uranium yielded material with low half-life, and, therefore, Fermi announced the discovery of a new element in 1934, though this was soon found to be mistaken.

The history of nuclear physics as a discipline distinct from atomic physics starts with the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896, while investigating phosphorescence in uranium salts.

The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus.

Before the discovery of radioactivity, uranium was primarily used in small amounts for yellow glass and pottery glazes, such as uranium glass and in Fiestaware.

The discovery and isolation of radium in uranium ore ( pitchblende ) by Marie Curie sparked the development of uranium mining to extract the radium, which was used to make glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials.

The discovery of the radioactivity of uranium ushered in additional scientific and practical uses of the element.

In early 1896, in the wave of excitement following Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's discovery of X-rays the previous fall, Becquerel thought that phosphorescent materials, such as some uranium salts, might emit penetrating X-ray-like radiation when illuminated by bright sunlight.

After the discovery of uranium in 1958 near Tordilla Hill, ten miles west of Falls City, uranium mining and milling developed.

The city was established as a planned community for the mining industry in 1955 after the discovery of uranium in the area, and named after the small lake on its northern edge.

She was launched in 1964 and named in honour of Otto Hahn, the German chemist and Nobel prizewinner, who was credited with the discovery of nuclear fission of uranium in 1938.

For more details of the original discovery of nuclear fission see the work of Otto Hahn. Meitner L, Frisch OR ( 1939 ) Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction Nature The nuclear fuel cycle The chemistry associated with any part of the nuclear fuel cycle, including nuclear reprocessing.

The subsequent discovery of other rich and profitable veins of gold, as well as uranium, eventually led to the creation of the largest urban conglomeration in sub-Saharan Africa.

As demonstrated above, Wells did have some knowledge of atomic physics, and William Ramsay, Ernest Rutherford, and Frederick Soddy's discovery of the disintegration of uranium ; Soddy's book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt praises The World Set Free.

Kamisaibara is the site of the first discovery of an outcropping of uranium ore within Japan.

The discovery of uranium at Mary Kathleen brought wealth to the community in the 1950s.

Although its life was short-lived, its significance was that it led to the discovery of the entire Blind River-Elliot Lake uranium mining camp.

Founded in 1969 following the discovery of uranium, it has grown around the mining industry, developed by the French government.

Once the online Web-based portion of the project was completed: the " winner " having taken a trip following Tulse Luper's travels ( and often imprisonment ) during his first writings about the discovery of uranium in Moab, Utah in 1928 to his mysterious disappearance at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ( August 14, 1886-March 11, 1950 ) was a Canadian-American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery of the uranium isotope < sup > 235 </ sup > U.

Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

The discovery of 26 individuals at one site provides evidence of pack behaviour and allows studies of ontogeny and population biology which are impossible with lesser-known dinosaurs.

The discovery was made public at a recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society in Rio de Janeiro.

Fleming was the first to push these studies further by isolating the penicillin, and by being motivated enough to promote his discovery at a larger scale.

" It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with the British discovery, penicillin.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

A rare discovery of metal plates belonging to wooden doors was made at Balawat ( Imgur-Enlil ).

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

But by laying bare in 1884 the upper stratum of remains on the rock of Tiryns, Schliemann made a contribution to our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life which was amplified two years later by Christos Tsountas's discovery of the palace at Mycenae.

At the time, there were media reports about the discovery of two bombs, one at Manila airport and another at the venue for the leaders ' meeting ".

Gerty Cori and Carl Cori jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of the Cori cycle at RPMI.

The first Bigfoot hunters began following the discovery of footprints at Bluff Creek, California.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

In 1999, the team at LBNL claimed the discovery of long-lived < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh ( 5 atoms ) and < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh ( 1 atom ).< ref > Later, both of these were confirmed.

With the discovery of the Dead Sea scroll, 4QDan < sup > c </ sup > at Qumran, dating 125 BCE, it does not reassure critics that Daniel was written in the 2nd century BCE.

Cape Breton Island's first residents were likely Maritime Archaic natives, ancestors of the Mi ' kmaq, the latter of whom inhabited the island at the time of European discovery.

The popularly reported European discovery of the okapi in 1901, earlier hinted at but unseen by Henry Morton Stanley in his travelogue of exploring the Congo, later became the emblem for the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology.

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

By those ignorant of the details of his discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus, Tischendorf was accused of buying manuscripts from ignorant monastery librarians at low prices.

The first major challenge to conventional eugenics based upon genetic inheritance was made in 1915 by Thomas Hunt Morgan, who demonstrated the event of genetic mutation occurring outside of inheritance involving the discovery of the hatching of a fruit fly with white eyes from a family and ancestry of the red-eyed Drosophila melanogaster species of fruit fly.

The dish called cassoulet has its roots in the New World discovery of haricot beans, which are central to the dish's creation, but had not existed outside of the New World until its exploration by Christopher Columbus.

A separate fragment of the Orgueil meteorite ( kept in a sealed glass jar since its discovery ) was found in 1965 to have a seed capsule embedded in it, whilst the original glassy layer on the outside remained undisturbed.

Streeter clearly lied about his discovery of the " District of Lake Michigan " in 1886, referencing a map published in 1821 to determine that his " District " was outside of City limits.

News of the discovery reached the outside world that winter.

Today, this concept is used much more often and without such connotations, but a popular implication remains that the epiphany is supernatural, as the discovery seems to come suddenly from the outside.

Finally, yet more observations ( often radar observations, or discovery of a previous sighting of the same asteroid on archival images ) shrink the ellipse until the Earth is outside the error region, and the impact probability returns to near zero.

The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher ( HARPS ) instrument, installed in another ESO telescope, led to the discovery of many other extrasolar planets, including Gliese 581c, one of the smallest planets outside the Solar System found to date.

*" There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture – that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

A startling discovery is that it is bigger inside than outside.

Eugène Dubois ' ( 1858 – 1940 ) discovery in 1891 in Indonesia of the " Java Man ", the first specimen of Homo erectus to be discovered, demonstrated mankind's deep ancestry outside Europe.

This was the first confirmed discovery of planets outside the Solar System ( over seven hundred are known today ).

His films remained widely unknown outside of Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mid 1980s, home video releases of key films such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in the late 1990s and tributes by such acclaimed filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai and Quentin Tarantino signaled his international discovery.

Taylor immediately went to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia, and participated in the discovery of the first pulsars discovered outside Cambridge.

Since the 2001 discovery of a single individual in Burma, at least nine separate sites have been identified in the limestone outcrops of the Dawna and Karen Hills outside the Thanlwin, Ataran, and Gyaing Rivers of Kayin and Mon States.

In November 2011, a SEDES expert involved in a serosurvey to determine the extent of Machupo virus infections in the Department after the discovery of a second confirmed case near the departmental capital of Trinidad in November, 2011, expressed concern about expansion of the virus ' distribution outside the endemic zone in Mamoré and Iténez provinces.

Pete is the first person outside of the Kent family with whom Clark shares the secret of his powers ( albeit to prevent Pete telling the general public about the discovery of his spaceship, which had been lost in a recent tornado before Pete discovered it in a field ).

The Hawaiian island chain lay outside the routes followed by early European explorers, and it was not until La Pérouse's near-disastrous discovery that the shoals were known to the outside world.

These correspondences led to Picard's contributions to areas of science outside the field of geodesy, such as the aberration of light he observed while in Uraniborg, or his discovery of mercurial phosphorescence upon his observance of the faint glowing of a barometer.

The discovery of mass graves filled with executed bodies in Kuropaty outside Minsk by historian Zyanon Paznyak and exhumation of the remains, gave an added momentum to the pro-democracy and pro-independence movement in Belarus.

A volcanic origin is theorized because of the discovery of basalt and rhyodacite outside of the crater basin.

Despite his other foci, Hutchins does not entirely shun the laboratory world ; he believes, however, that some such things are best learned through discovery once a student has been graduated to the outside world.

In 1992 Wolszczan and Dale Frail published a famous paper on the first confirmed discovery of planets outside our solar system.