Marie and Pierre Curie Announce the Isolation of Radium
Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium from tons of pitchblende ore, revealing a substance that glows with its own eerie light. This breakthrough forces scientists to abandon the idea of immutable atoms and launches the field of nuclear physics, eventually leading to both radical cancer treatments and atomic weaponry.
December 26, 1898
128 years ago
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