“By the Curies’ count,” Dava Sobel writes in “The Elements of Marie Curie,” “there were now four ‘radioelements.’ ” In addition to uranium and thorium, which had been discovered ...

and to their recent discovery of the radio-active element which Mme. Curie named Polonium, in honor of her native country. The Gegner prize was awarded to Mme. Curie again in 1300, and a third ...

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 ...

but these elements cannot be seen in this version of the periodic table. Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie discovered two elements: radium and polonium. For these discoveries, Marie Curie received ...

Marie Curie’s scientific journey truly began when she met and married Pierre Curie, a fellow physicist. The couple’s collaborative work led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and ...

So was Pierre Curie. If he had been able to make full use of his rich ... and that their outstanding accomplishment was Marie's deduction that there must be a new element, in addition ...