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Radium was discovered by Marie Curie. She is the first woman to receive Nobel Prize.

Marie Curie, daughter of a teacher was born at Warsaw (Poland). After her studies she started her career with Prof. Becquerel the discoverer of radioactivity.

He had left some pieces off uranium in his table drawer. Marie used them to weigh photo plates. When, those photo plates were developed. She saw few lines there and suspected that some rays had emanated from the Uranium.

Marie had marries Pierre Curie, physicist. The couple started conducting experiments on their own. They found abundant Uranium pitchblende in the country of Bohemia. They obtained about 10,000 Kilograms from the government on request.

They extracted "Radium" from it. The radium delivered a strange blue light when it was kept in a test tube in a dark room. Marie curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the isolation of Radium and Polonium.

To honor Marie curie a chemical element 'Curium' and a unit of radioactivity 'Curie' have been named after her.