Who Was Marie Curie?
3. Radioactivity
Marie Curie is best known for her discovery of radioactivity. She would experiment on different compounds including uranium and pitchblende, which is now known as uranium ore. She was able to take measurements of rays produced by these materials thanks to instruments that were designed by her husband.
It was in 1898 that Marie introduced her findings to the public with her seminal paper. It was in this paper that she coined the term “radioactivity,” a term that is still used today. The paper stated that radioactivity was a property of atoms, and that it would lead to us discovering new elements.
