, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie, 2005 | On the centenary of her second Nobel Prize, Poland declared 2011 the Year of Marie Curie; and the declared that this would be the |
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Even so, just as Thompson had been beaten by Becquerel, so Curie was beaten in the race to tell of her discovery that thorium gives off rays in the same way as uranium; two months earlier, had published his own finding in Berlin | She concluded that, if her earlier results relating the quantity of uranium to its activity were correct, then these two minerals must contain small quantities of another substance that was far more active than uranium |
British chemist considers Arrhenius's attempt as an early example of in.
"Marie Sklodowska Curie in America, 1921" | from the original on 12 September 2011 |
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In 1895 she married the French physicist , and she shared the 1903 with him and with the physicist for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"—a term she coined | Pearce Williams, "Curie, Pierre and Marie", Encyclopedia Americana, vol |
These distractions from her scientific labours, and the attendant publicity, caused her much discomfort but provided resources for her work.
The Curies did not their discovery and benefited little from this increasingly profitable business | Radium, however, was more elusive; it is closely related chemically to , and pitchblende contains both elements |
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Her papers are kept in lead-lined boxes, and those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing | 1903, with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel• from the original on 6 March 2019 |
Marie called this radiation radioactivity—"radio" means radiation.