She suspected the presence of an even more powerful element. MARIE-NOELLE HIMBERT: Here, Po, Polonium is the first element that they discovered. CHRIS PACKHAM: It’s remarkable, isn’t it?

Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out pioneering research into radioactivity. Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw on 7 November 1867 ...

Cambray, R. S., et al., A.E.R.E.–R 4392 (1963). Patterson, R. L., and Lockhart, L. B., in The Natural Radiation Environment, edit. by Adams, J. A. S., and Lowder, W ...

In the UK, two Russian ex-secret service agents were targeted: Alexander Litvinenko fatally with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and Sergei Skripal with the toxic nerve agent Novichok in 2018.

Thursday marks the anniversary of the birth of Polish Nobel Prize-winning scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie, an inspiring ...