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Surname Of The Pioneering Husband And Wife Whose Research On Pitchblende Led To Their Discovery Of Polonium And Radium Crossword Clue

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• French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

• a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second

• French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)

69%6 Her discovery of radium and polonium revolutionized the field of radioactivity
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55%6 Named after the scientists who discovered radium and polonium
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• a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei

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