Marie Curie is famous for discovering the element Radium, previously unknown. The history of this is an interesting progression, like so much in science. The physicist Roentgen discovered X-rays, and found that they would pass through solid matter, and also that they would affect photographic plates. The scientist Becquerel discovered that a mineral called pitchblende would affect these plates even through their wrappers, and suspected that the mineral was producing X-rays. This was puzzling, because Roentgen made X-rays using high voltages in a vacuum chamber, while pitchblende just sat there but somehow did the trick. Curie thought that there must be something unknown in pitchblende. She bought tons of it, and started trying to isolate something else from it. Eventually she managed to get a few grams of something from the tons of original stuff. This new substance had remarkable properties. It was always warmer than its surroundings; it shone in the dark, and it produced something very like X-rays. The rate at which these three things were produced did not seem to diminish with time. She had produced a radioactive substance with a long half-life. Because it radiated light, heat and X-rays it became called Radium.
Marie and Pierre Curie did not discover the atom. John Dalton is credited with the discovery of the atom and J.J. Thomson with the discovery of the electron.
Marie Curie isolated pure radium on January 12, 1902.
Discover Elements have always existed, in nature
No, Marie Curie did not discover gravity. Gravity was first explained by Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century based on his laws of motion and universal gravitation. Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist known for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
Yes, they worked together.
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Marie Curie
In Paris - 1898.
The husband, Pierre Curie.
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Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and Gustave Bemont discovered radium in France, 1898.
in france,1848
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pitchblend
Yes she did
Marie and Pierre Curie did not discover the atom. John Dalton is credited with the discovery of the atom and J.J. Thomson with the discovery of the electron.
Polonium and was discovered in 1898 by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie.