If you donât want to roll your 403b into a traditional IRA, you also have the option to convert it to a Roth IRA. You will have to pay the appropriate tax when you do convert so seek counsel from a tax professional before doing so.
She then figured out that pitchblende must contain another highly radioactive element, yet unknown. The idea of ââa new element was so exciting to her husband Pierre that he put his own research aside and helped Marie. In 1898, they discovered two new elements-polonium and radium. Polonium was named after Marie's homeland, Poland. Radium got its name from the Latin word for ray. Radium hands from 1940-1950's watches.
According to his Nobel Committee biography, Ramsay went on to discover Helium in 1895; and in 1898 he found Neon, Krypton and Xenon. In mid-1894, Sir William Ramsay worked in conjunction with John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on research which led to the discovery of Argon. They announced the discovery at the meeting of the British Association in August 1894, and in 1904 were awarded Nobel Prizes for the discovery.