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Radium was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie in 1898 while they were studying uranium ore. Polonium, also discovered by the Curies in the same year, was named after Poland, Marie Curie's homeland. Their groundbreaking work in radioactivity significantly advanced the field of nuclear science.

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