The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...

Curie not only discovered radium, she realised what it could be ... were things smaller than atoms and up until this point, the atom was an indivisible thing. MARIE-NOELLE HIMBERT: Yes.

Whoever first split the atom, it was not an American. Rebecca Priestley, professor of science in society at Victoria University of Wellington and author of “Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the ...

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an inch thick, and tracing the particles' paths.