Who they are
Pierre Curie coauthored the 1898 radium report with Marie Curie and Gustave Bémont. Their work combined chemical fractionation with evidence of unusually strong radioactivity and a distinctive spectral line. The report belongs to the discovery phase of radium, and does not claim that the team had already isolated a pure sample.
He appears as one member of the experimental collaboration behind the radium report.
Selected contributions
- Coauthored the report proposing radium as a new strongly radioactive substance.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 →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
Dujardin. 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) ↗
