Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Marie Curie who is assisted by her husband named Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906) found that the uranium ore pitchblende is much more radioactive than pure uranium. They realize that pitchblende must have contained additional radioactive material is much more active. In 1902, after trying hard for four years, they separated a small amount of two new elements, namely polonium and radium. As former scientists who examined the radioactivity, the curie family less aware of the danger, and Marie Curie died of leukemia. High levels of radiation from his own glass pumpkin, pumpkin glass where it became blue due to radiation.

Marie Curie