Marie Curie spent years tirelessly exploring the properties of uranium and the mysterious phenomenon it emitted – ...

Marie Sklodowska was born ... half to Mons. and Mme. Curie and half to Henri Becquerel, whose discovery of the spontaneous radio-activity of uranium ore formed the basis of all subsequent ...

Marie Curie is a name that needs no introduction ... It didn’t take her long to realise that thorium gave off rays just like uranium. She drew the conclusion that the ability to radiate must ...

Marie Sklodowska Curie died on 4th July 1934 ... Curie studied rocks containing uranium, which at that point, was the only known radioactive material. Curie discovered a sample which gave off ...

Pitchbende, a uranium bearing ore ... Her daughter Irene also became a scientist, and in 1934, Marie saw Irene and her husband Frederick Joliot-Curie produce the first ever artificial radioactive ...