Her groundbreaking work in radioactivity laid the foundation for numerous advancements in science and medicine. This blog post explores the life and legacy of Marie Curie, highlighting her ...

They called it the shed, though it was more of a dilapidated hangar. A former anatomy theater, it housed old pinewood tables, a cast-iron stove and a blackboard—all under a high ceiling that leaked.

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 ...

She realised that these rays must be coming from the substance’s own atoms. Marie Curie called the force behind these rays, ‘radioactivity’. Marie Curie went on to test all the elements known at that ...

One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ... They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most important prize in the world ...

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.

This was a party now. It began in 1898, when Marie Curie was studying a lump of uranium ore in Paris. She noticed that its levels of radioactivity were inexplicably high. There was something else ...

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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 ...