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View full size image. Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the study of radiation. She and her husband, Pierre, discovered the elements polonium and radium. Together, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, and she received another one, for Chemistry, in 1911. Her work with radioactive materials doomed her, however. She died of a blood disease in 1934.
Pierre and Marie Curie, French Physicists discovered two new elements emitting radiation, polonium on July 18, 1898. and radium in December of 1898. Marie Curie named the energy emitted from uranium and thorium as radioactivity. and also invented the first instrument to measure radioactivity.