26th December is reserved to The Curies

26th December is reserved to The Curies
On December 21st, 1898 the Curies discover radium but they announce the isolation of radium on the 26th December, 1898.
Following on Becquerel, the Curies succeeded in isolating element 84, polonium (named for Poland, the country of Marie’s birth), and then element 88, radium. It was Marie, in particular, who devised a method for separating radium from its radioactive residues, making possible the closer study of its therapeutic properties. This would remain a lifelong interest of hers.

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