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 ...

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 ...

This is the sad story of the radium girls. Getty ImagesPierre and Marie Curie in 1905. The radium-infused paint was a new invention in 1917. Though Pierre and Marie Curie had first identified the ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...