induced radioactivity

noun

, Physics.

1. artificial radioactivity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of induced radioactivity¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Nobel rules state that prizes can be awarded only to living scientists, but many people believe that even had Franklin lived, the Nobel Assembly would have passed her over, just as it had all but three women before her: physicist Marie Curie for her role in explaining radioactivity and for isolating radium; radiochemist Irène Joliot-Curie for discovering induced radioactivity; and biochemist Gerty Cori, who showed how cells convert sugar into energy.

From Scientific American

The discoveries of the neutron in 1932 and of induced radioactivity in 1934 opened up a new line of research — manufacturing elements in the lab by bombarding atoms with particles.

From Nature

One excuse Lawrence cited frequently was that induced radioactivity was so unexpected a phenomenon that the Rad Lab could not be blamed for missing it—every other physics lab in the world had missed it too, until the Joliots came upon it by accident.

From Literature

As early as the 1920s, Rutherford had started searching for induced radioactivity in targets blasted with alpha rays.

From Literature

Caltech hinted to Poillon that Lawrence’s claims for primacy in the discovery of induced radioactivity slighted results obtained first, or at least virtually concurrently, by Lauritsen.

From Literature