The 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Antoine Becquerel (1852–1908), Marie Curie (1867–1934) and Pierre Curie (1859–1906). Marie Curie won a second Nobel Prize, for Chemistry, in 1911. They isolated radium from the study of pitchblend, a material rich in uranium and thorium, and showed it to be extremely radioactive.1, 2
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Becquerel AH.
Sur les radiations émisesparphosphorescence. CR Acad Sci (Paris). 1896;10:420–421.
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Curie P, Curie MS.
Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, continue dans la pitchblend. CR Acad Sci (Paris). 1898;127:175–178,1215–7.
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