[DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie and the radioactivity, The 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics [PAR] In 1935 Marie's daughter, Irne Joliot-Curie, was awarded the Chemistry Prize ... 
Marie called this radiation radioactivity - "radio" means radiation. ... In 1898, they 
discovered two new elements - polonium and radium. Polonium was named after 
Marie's homeland, Poland. Radium got its name from the Latin word for ray. [DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie - Questions and Answers - Nobelprize.org [PAR] Answer: Marie Curie died on 4 July 1934, in Savoy, France. ... Marie and Pierre 
Curie were awarded half the prize for their ... in 1898 the Curies discovered two 
new radioactive elements: radium (named after the Latin word for ray) and 
polonium (named after Marie's home country, Poland). ... First published 22 
January 2008... [DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie - Wikipedia [PAR] Marie Skodowska Curie born Maria Salomea Skodowska [marja salma 
skwdfska], was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who... [DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie | 3.2Way of Knowing: Stars and Elements | 3. Stars ... [PAR] Read and learn for free about the following article: Marie Curie. ... She was the 
first woman to earn a degree in physics from the Sorbonne. Marie thought ... They 
named it polonium, after her native country. ... For their discovery of radioactivity
, the couple, along with Henri Becquerel, shared the Nobel Prize in physics. 
Marie... [DOC] [TLE] Marie and Pierre Curie [PAR] Pierre and Marie Curie are best known for their pioneering work in the study of 
radioactivity, which led to their discovery in 1898 of the elements radium ... 
radiating elements, which they named polonium (after Marie's native country) and 
radium. ... She thus became the first female lecturer at the Sorbonne, and in 1908 
she... [DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie: Facts & Biography - Live Science [PAR] Aug 14, 2013 ... Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the study of radiation. 
She and her husband discovered two element, and she coined the term "
radioactive. ... portrait of Marie Curie, taken about 1903 when she was awarded 
her first ... element that they named polonium, after Marie's native country,... [DOC] [TLE] arie klodowska urie discovered the mysterious element radium. It ... [PAR] This file contains most of the text of the Web exhibit Marie Curie and the. Science 
of Radioactivity at http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/. ... named Maria 
Sklodowska at birth. ... even to children so young that they could scarcely speak 
their native Polish. .... of Warsaw; yet I found more opportunities than in the 
country. [DOC] [TLE] Polonium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table [PAR] Discovery date, 1898. Discovered by, Marie Curie. Origin of the name, Polonium 
is named after Poland, the native country of Marie Curie, who first isolated the... [DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie - Physicist - Biography.com [PAR] Nov 20, 2015 ... Explore the scientific mind of Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize winner whose 
work led to the discovery of radioactivity. ... in Warsaw, Poland, Marie Curie 
became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the ... 
They named the element polonium, after Marie's native country of Poland. [DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie the scientist | Biog, facts & quotes [PAR] Marie Curie, for whom the charity Marie Curie is named, is remembered for her ... 
Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her 
huge ... of Chemistry and Physics in Paris and there they began their pioneering 
work into ... were a great deal more radioactive than the pure element uranium. [DOC] [TLE] Marie Curie facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] A year in the country with her uncle Sklodowski, a notary in Skalbmierz, near the 
... Maria met Pierre Curie in April 1894 at the home of a Polish physicist named 
Kowalski. ... Curie's; its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, 
.... of chemistry by the discovery of the

Question: Named for Marie Curie's native country, it was the 1st element discovered by means of its radioactivity
Answer: Polonium