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.

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 ...

When Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize ... her second Nobel Prize (she wins the second for discovering radium and polonium, as well as determining radium’s atomic weight) – the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time when people didn't think that women were clever enough to work in science. We know today this is nonsense, but not then. One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ...

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 ...