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Marie Curie - radioactive elementsMarie Curie, along with her husband, Pierre, investigated radioactive elements, eventually extracting less than a gram of a new element, radium, from over eight tonnes of the ore pitchblende. Activitya) Search the internet to find lists of Nobel prize winners in science (there are three science categories – Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology and Medicine) to find out what else is unique about the Curie family and the Nobel prize. b) Search the internet to find which other elements were discovered by women. |
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