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Radium discovered (Curies)
Discovered
1898
Marie and Pierre Curie found polonium and radium in the same year.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
“få en utdannelse. Studier i Paris Marie og Pierre Curie i laboratoriet i Paris. Her fant de grunnstoffene polonium og radium (1898). Marie og Pierre Curie Av Ukjent /KF-arkiv ※. Lisens: Falt i det fri (Public”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“Efter langvarige kemiske analyser af store mængder uranmalme og intensitetsmålinger på analyseprodukterne, kunne ægteparret i 1898 offentliggøre opdagelsen af to nye grundstoffer: polonium og radium. Arbejde som”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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