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20th April 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie prove the existence of radium
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Publish Date: 2018-04-19 21:05:15
Description: Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride. Marie and Pierre Curie were both pioneering scientists in their own right, but as a research partnership they are most famous for their work on radioactivity. Inspired by the work of the French physicist Henri Becquerel who had been the first person to discover radioactivity, the Curies’ work won them the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics which they shared with Becquerel himself. Marie had been born and raised in Poland but, since women were not permitted to ...
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