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Curie did not discover radiation -- Henri Becquerel did. Curie simply showed that the amount of radiation coming from uranium compounds depended only on the amount of uranium in the sample, not on the chemical make-up of the compound. This strongly suggested that the radiation was coming from the atoms of uranium themselves, a revolutionary idea for its time.

The Curies later found other elements that were radioactive; radium being the most intense of those.

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