Science
Marie Curie
Physicist and chemist; radioactivity researcher
Also known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie · Marie Skłodowska Curie
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Marie Curie worked with Pierre Curie and Gustave Bémont on the 1898 report identifying evidence for radium in pitchblende. The team combined chemical separation, activity measurements and spectroscopic evidence. Their report distinguished the proposed new substance from earlier polonium work while acknowledging that radium had not yet been obtained free of barium.
She appears in the sequence of discoveries that opened the study of atomic and nuclear processes.
Selected contributions
- Coauthored the radium report with Pierre Curie and Gustave Bémont.Source ↗
Selected works
Academic paper · 1898
On a New, Strongly Radio-active Substance Contained in Pitchblende
Pierre and Marie Curie with Gustave Bémont report a strongly radioactive fraction of pitchblende and propose radium as a new element. The report distinguishes chemical separation and Demarçay’s spectral evidence from isolation of a pure substance.
Report of December 26, 1898; Alfred Romer’s 1970 English translation hosted by AIP.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Entire short translated report read; original French facsimile was not compared. Translation is from Romer’s 1970 edition. Reused prior inspected evidence: Entire short translated report read; original French facsimile was not compared. Translation is from Romer’s 1970 edition.
In the timeline
- Dec 26, 1898The Curies and Bémont report evidence for radium
Documented connections
Documented · co authored with
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie are named co-authors, with Gustave Bémont, of the radium report.
The edge records report authorship; Demarçay’s spectroscopy and Bémont’s co-authorship remain separately credited.
Read the relationship record →Documented · co authored with
Marie Curie and Gustave Bémont are named co-authors of the same radium report, alongside Pierre Curie.
This does not assign individual shares of experimental work or imply that the sample was pure radium.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources & portrait credit
- On a New, Strongly Radio-active Substance Contained in Pitchblende ↗Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences; translation hosted by American Institute of Physics
Portrait credit
Henri Manuel. Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration) ↗
