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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.
Isidor Rabi (1898-1988) Credit for the discovery of NMR goes to Isidor Isaac Rabi, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944. Working at New York Cityâs Columbia University in the 1930âs, Rabi and his team were attempting to measure the magnetic properties of various nuclei including hydrogen, deuterium, and lithium.