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What term did Marie Curie coin for the emission of penetrating rays from certain atoms?
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911).
Marie Curie coined the term radioactivity to describe the phenomenon of the emission of penetrating rays from certain atoms, which had been initially discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896.1