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.

Like radium and polonium, the constantly transmuting elements ... is at the core of Dava Sobel’s new book, The Elements of Marie Curie, which follows 2016’s The Glass Universe, on the early ...

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 ...

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel prize. Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out ...

By December of that year, they had found another new element, ‘radium’, named after the Latin word for ray. Polonium and radium were added to Marie Curie's discoveries, paving the way for modern ...

polonium and radium, in 1898. Curie’s meticulous research demonstrated that these elements emitted radiation, a phenomenon she termed “radioactivity.” In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie ...