AFP / Getty Images When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements radium and polonium, coined the term “radio-active” and ...

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 ...

Her revolutionary discoveries of the radioactive elements polonium and radium transformed science and opened the door to further breakthroughs. But her tireless experimentation with these ...

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 ...

In 1898, Pierre and Marie, working in a converted shed next to the University, discovered two new elements: polonium, named after her native Poland, and radium, named after the Latin word for ‘ray.’ ...

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.

Radium, polonium and radon may be names to make your hair stand on end, but are they actually useful for anything? And is our fear of them overbaked? Laurence Knight gets the chemistry rundown ...

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 ...

Marie Curie was around 30 when she, along with her husband Pierre, discovered the radioactive elements radium and polonium. But according to economists Benjamin Jones and Bruce Weinberg, young ...

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 ...

Despite her discoveries of polonium and radium, prolonged exposure to radiation caused her death from aplastic anemia. Her preserved radioactive personal items and the continued hazardous nature ...