Marie, Are You Ever Going to Come Away From That Port of Pitch Blend?

In 19 hundred and two i isolated one tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride. Mary curey would eventually also look for a practical application of her scientific discoveries. Pierre appeared to be the more curious of the two about the potential youth for radioactivity. He purposely burnt his own arm during experiments to investigate the effects of radiation on living tissue. It was the beginning of cancer. They didn't know it then, but marie and pierre were being slowly poisoned by all the exposure to radiation. Maricure's dogged, determined, grueling mission to produce that tiny amount of radium for the world to see was nothing short of herculean. And it was in the name