Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win the award twice. Marie's efforts, with help from husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium ...

Curie much preferred her "beautiful radium." Polonium was much too unstable and uninteresting, finding its place helping in the dull task of... Polonium-210 is back in the spotlight. The radioisotope ...

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’ work ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...