polonium

She discovered the element radium, and later polonium, near the end of the 19th century.

Once the polonium had been recognized, police were able to trace the source of the poison to the Millennium hotel in Mayfair.

That would be Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, the gal who discovered radioactive polonium.

Did he understand that he would now have to live with a sword—not of Damocles but of polonium—hanging over his head?

Polonium is also at the center of a major plot line currently playing out on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

Was the Palestinian leader poisoned by radioactive polonium?

One such reaction uses alpha particles emitted by polonium-210 (or some other alpha emitter) to bombard the element beryllium.

Four successive alpha captures would give Polonium 203, not mercury.

It is well known that Pierre and Marie Curie used this new-found radioactivity to identify the new elements polonium and radium.

Polonium, named by Mme. Curie in honor of her native country, was the third radioactive element to be discovered.

Her first discovery was that of the substance polonium—so named by Madame Curie after her native country, Poland.