The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...

she discovered an even more powerful element… MARIE-NOELLE HIMBERT: Radium… CHRIS PACKHAM: Sulphate of radium. Curie not only discovered radium, she realised what it could be used for ...

Marie was the first woman ever to receive this! Marie and Pierre found that radium could help the body fight cancer cells. Sadly Pierre died when he was just 46. Marie took over his teaching job ...

The wonder of radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became a status symbol For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others trains ...

But only Marie would carry radium into the future. Ms. Sobel, a journalist and the author of “Galileo’s Daughter” (1999) and “The Glass Universe” (2016), among other books, takes the ...

By the summer of 1899, the Curies had isolated a new element and Marie named it ‘polonium’ after her home country. By December of that year, they had found another new element, ‘radium’, named after ...

Soon, he fell violently ill - but instead of stopping, he continued drinking the substance as he continued to lose weight, ...

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

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 ...

IT would appear that radium has landed geologists and biologists in a difficulty greater than that from which it was hoped it would deliver them. There is radium in the earth, and radium in ...

IN considering the influence of radium on earth history, it appears to be generally assumed that the radium detected everywhere in the surface materials of the earth is an original constituent of ...