Nov 7, 2022
5 min read
When a Product’s Radioactivity was a Selling Point
The ‘wonder of the age’ was in everything, from chocolate to condoms
Marie Curie (1867–1934) discovered radium in 1898. It is a chemical element with the symbol Ra and the atomic number 88. Marie, and her husband Pierre, won half of the Nobel prize for physics in 1903 (she would win a second prize for chemistry in 1911). To complete…
