Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what ...
Scientific American8y
Origin of Radium
Inasmuch as the amount of radium discovered at the end of the year was only a ten-thousandth part of that which his and Sir William Ramsay's theories promised, he says: “This practically settles ...
The New York Times6y
RADIUM EFFACES BIRTHMARKS; Discovery Causes Sensation Among Paris Doctors -- Method Painless.
Wickham and Degrais, have created a sensation at the Academy of Medicine by a report on their discovery of a method of removing birthmarks by the action of radium. Such marks have hitherto been ...
Why Marie Curie’s coffin lined with lead and still remains radioactive even after 100 years
Marie Curie made groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity, earning her two Nobel Prizes. She discovered polonium and ...
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History KS3: Marie Curie - The person who discovered radium and polonium
CHRIS PACKHAM: Aboard a train bound for Paris sits a woman. Such was her passion for science, that when she learnt Poland’s universities didn’t accept women, she travelled across Europe to ...
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Who was Marie Curie?
They discovered a new element that gave off rays of heat and light - they called this radium. They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most ...