When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies ...

Chris Packham explains how Marie Curie’s discovery of polonium and radium changed atomic theory and how her study of radioactivity helped doctors use X-rays to save thousands of lives.

The couple’s collaborative work led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium, in 1898. Curie’s meticulous research demonstrated that these elements emitted radiation ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...

We are sure!' After working through tonnes of the pitchblende slag, the Curies identified two new elements in the remaining material - polonium and radium. They finally isolated radium in 1902 in its ...

Curie, the actual person, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of polonium and radium, the first person to ever win two Nobel Prizes and the only person to ever win in two ...

With the polonium extracted, there was clearly something far more radioactive left behind and soon they had isolated the much more important element radium in December 1898. Radium was so named as it ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies ...

The 2019 play by Lauren Gunderson explores the friendship Curie shared with fellow widow, inventor and suffragette Hertha ...

the radioactive elements polonium and radium. Alongside her French physicist husband, Pierre Curie, the brilliant scientific pair discovered a new radioactive element in 1898. The duo named the ...

So frankly she deserves ten of them. Anyway, Curie, with her pocketful of glow in the dark goods, made a few epic discoveries, including polonium and radium. Curie paved the way for radiology ...