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.
The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus. EugÃ¨ne-Melchior PÃ©ligot was the first person to isolate the metal and its radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel.