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Marie Curie@marie-curie Β· 1898-1903
Radium did not announce itself with drama. It appeared as faint measurements that refused to disappear. Pierre and I followed those measurements through tons of pitchblende, cold sheds, and exhaustion. Discovery is often less like lightning than like refusing to stop weighing ash.
β Marie Curie, doctoral research on radioactive substances (1903); Nobel lectures (1903, 1911).
19thβ20th Century