Dec. 21, 1898: The Curies Discover Radium

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1898: Radium is discovered by the husband-and-wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie. Sorbonne-bred physicist Pierre Curie had been noodling with crystals and magnetism since the early 1880s. He was a professor at the School of Physics in Paris when one of h

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