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Milestone: Discovery of radium and polonium
Date: Dec. 26, 1898
Where: Paris
Who: Marie and Pierre Curie, Gustave Bémont
On this day, chemists discovered a substance 900 times more radioactive than uranium. Their research led to…
Science history: Marie Curie discovers a strange radioactive substance that would eventually kill her — Dec. 26, 1898
