Once she moved on to testing uranium and thorium ores, however, she was presented with astonishing results. On testing the ore known as pitchblende, Marie Curie discovered that it produced more ...

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925 ... was noting the emission of a different kind of mysterious rays, those from uranium salts. J. J. Thomson discovered negatively charged particles, which we now ...

Marie Curie being the only woman to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different fields. Her career began in 1896 when French scientist Henri Becquerel found that uranium salts emit beams which were ...

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 ...

As we near the end of Women’s History Month, a time designated to commemorate the role of women in history, we will explore the life of a woman who m | Cancer ...

Her primary objective was to understand the nature of “uranic rays” discovered by Becquerel and to determine whether this property was unique to uranium ... Marie Curie coined the term ...

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 ...