Curie much preferred her "beautiful radium." Polonium was much too unstable and uninteresting, finding its place helping in the dull task of... Polonium-210 is back in the spotlight. The radioisotope ...

It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie's discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired several tons of pitchblende, a black ore, and the ...

A new historical marker at the University of Pittsburgh honors the Flannery brothers, who founded the Standard Chemical Company in Oakland. A few years after Polish scientist Marie Curie discovered ...

Elizabeth Rona’s work taught us fundamental details about atoms. Her preoccupation with the radioactivity of seawater and ocean sediments revealed the hands of a clock, stretching back eons. She did ...

In 1896, Henri Becquerel was studying uranium when he discovered a new type of radiation that could pass through metal. His research got the attention of physicist Marie Curie, who began to study ...

Also known as Radium F, it is a rare but naturally occurring metalloid found in uranium ores that emits highly hazardous alpha, or positively charged, particles. Before being cited this week in ...

WITH reference to the interesting letter on this subject by Prof. Rutherford in last week's NATURE, I should like to point out that in my paper “On the positive electrification of α rays and the ...