This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with a
This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with an opinion or confirm the accuracy of any text appearing alongside or in logical association with the image. Discovery of radium by the Curies, as depicted in a caricature published in the British weekly magazine Vanity Fair in 1904. French physicist Pierre Curie (1867-1906) and French-Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934) married in 1895. The Curies worked together on radioactive materials, and in 1898 they discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. The latter, glowing in the tube in Pierre's hand, was not fully isolated until 1910 by Marie. Both were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), with Marie also receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911). Artwork by Julius Mendes Price ('Imp').
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