But as far as I can tell, Marie Curie was the first scientist to realize that radiation is attributable to internal properties of atoms
Untrue—and for evidence of it being true, you would need to quote a paper by her issued before she was made into a mascot, not a paper about her after she was made into a mascot.
For her to be the first scientist to realize that, she would have to issue a paper in which she asserted that, which she did not do.
What she in fact did was measure various samples prepared for her by her husband and another of his assistants, using a radiation measuring device invented and built by her husband, and as a result of these measurements, she did in fact assert that:
“All the uranium compounds studied are active, and are, in general, more active to the extent that they contain more uranium.[25]
From which other people, Rutherford and people around him, concluded that the radiation arose from the internal structure of the atom.
Marie Curie was not able to draw the conclusion you and the twenty first century Nobel committee attribute to her, because the radioactivity she measured was not in fact exactly proportional to the amount of uranium, due to the build up of radon after purification. To make the discovery you attribute to her, would have needed to first discover radioactive decay, or at least first discover radon.
She strongly suspected the conclusion you attribute to her, and did experiments intended to show it, but her results were confounded by radon.
Since the measured radioactivity was not exactly proportional to the amount of the element, the evidence that she thought she saw seemingly showed that radioactive decay was influenced, at least to some extent, by the chemical form.
Which is why the discovery of radon by Rutherford and his people was far more important than the discovery of radium by Pierre Curie and his people: because it enabled Rutherford to draw the conclusion that you falsely attribute to Marie Curie.
The reason Pierre Curie’s group gets bigger publicity than Rutherford’s group is that one of the people in Pierre Curie’s group was a woman.
The discovery of radon made it possible to do measurements that substituted “exactly”, for “generally”, to measure that radioactivity was exactly proportional to the amount of the element, rather than “in general, more active to the extent that they contain more uranium”, from which one could then conclude that radioactivity was internal to the structure of the atom—a conclusion Marie Curie’s evidence seemingly contradicted.
Untrue—and for evidence of it being true, you would need to quote a paper by her issued before she was made into a mascot, not a paper about her after she was made into a mascot.
For her to be the first scientist to realize that, she would have to issue a paper in which she asserted that, which she did not do.
What she in fact did was measure various samples prepared for her by her husband and another of his assistants, using a radiation measuring device invented and built by her husband, and as a result of these measurements, she did in fact assert that:
From which other people, Rutherford and people around him, concluded that the radiation arose from the internal structure of the atom.
Marie Curie was not able to draw the conclusion you and the twenty first century Nobel committee attribute to her, because the radioactivity she measured was not in fact exactly proportional to the amount of uranium, due to the build up of radon after purification. To make the discovery you attribute to her, would have needed to first discover radioactive decay, or at least first discover radon.
She strongly suspected the conclusion you attribute to her, and did experiments intended to show it, but her results were confounded by radon.
Since the measured radioactivity was not exactly proportional to the amount of the element, the evidence that she thought she saw seemingly showed that radioactive decay was influenced, at least to some extent, by the chemical form.
Which is why the discovery of radon by Rutherford and his people was far more important than the discovery of radium by Pierre Curie and his people: because it enabled Rutherford to draw the conclusion that you falsely attribute to Marie Curie.
The reason Pierre Curie’s group gets bigger publicity than Rutherford’s group is that one of the people in Pierre Curie’s group was a woman.
The discovery of radon made it possible to do measurements that substituted “exactly”, for “generally”, to measure that radioactivity was exactly proportional to the amount of the element, rather than “in general, more active to the extent that they contain more uranium”, from which one could then conclude that radioactivity was internal to the structure of the atom—a conclusion Marie Curie’s evidence seemingly contradicted.