A good deal of attention is now being given to the probable origin of radium. Whether the element, while still intermingled with other substances in the ores in which it is found, undergoes change ...

radium per litre is considered a fair average ... whereas with uranium no sufficiently sensitive method for measuring this element existed until quite recently 1.

The eventual discovery of element 87 was made in 1939 by a remarkable ... the isolation of the radioactive elements polonium and radium by the Curies, as well as actinium by Debierne — all ...

CHRIS PACKHAM: Aboard a train bound for Paris sits a woman. Such was her passion for science, that when she learnt Poland’s universities didn’t accept women, she travelled across Europe to ...

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. The pay was ...

I was astonished at how casually radium was treated, but at the time it was seen as a wonder element. Radium showed remarkable results in fighting cancerous tumors and was thus viewed as a cure ...

The hourlong show dramatizes the true story of the radium girls, young women working for the U.S. Radium Corp. in the 1920s who were sickened by ingesting the radioactive element used to create ...