The physicists-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these ... would interest chemists as a new addition to the periodic table; it also sparked a flurry of activity in medicine.

They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in ... Curium, named after the double Nobel laureate Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, was discovered in 1944 by a scientist called ...

A more famous victim of radium was its discoverer, the double Nobel prize winner Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska ... It's classified in the periodic table as an alkaline earth metal - the heaviest ...

Polonium, (element 84), was discovered in 1898 and named after Poland, the homeland of Marie Curie (Ne Sklodowska ... Polonium has a position in the periodic table that could make it a metal, a ...