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.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like radium and polonium, the constantly transmuting elements she added to the periodic table, there were ...

Marie Curie, an emblematic figure in the world of science, has left an indelible mark on the fabric of physics and chemistry.

The element is there and I've got to find it! We are sure!' After working through tonnes of the pitchblende slag, the Curies identified two new elements in the remaining material - polonium and radium ...

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 ...

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 ...

A cat named after the brilliant Polish chemist Marie Curie is looking for her forever family in Texas. Curie, the actual ...

Pitchblende does not just contain actinium (the topic of this podcast), it also contains radium, radon and polonium; the latter, if we are to believe recent news reports, the Russian assassin's toxin ...

Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out pioneering research into radioactivity. Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw on 7 November 1867 ...

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 ...

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 ...