jul 1, 1898 - Marie Skłodowska and Pierre Curie
Description:
French scientists Marie Skłodowska and Pierre Curie published their discovery of radium in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. In the December issue of the same journal, the Curies announced their discovery of polonium, named after Marie’s homeland of Poland. The Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with Antoine Henri BecquerelAdded to timeline:
Date:
jul 1, 1898
Now
~ 127 years ago