History
The modern electronic scintillation counter was invented in 1944 by Sir Samuel Curran whilst he was working on the Manhattan Project at the University of California at Berkeley, and it is based on the work of earlier researchers reaching back to Antoine Henri Becquerel, who is generally credited with discovering radioactivity, whilst working on the phosphorescence of certain uranium salts (in 1896). The Spinthariscope was an early method of detecting the scintillation events by eye.
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