Multiple choice

Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?

  1. Isaac Newton

  2. Albert Einstein

  3. Benjamin Franklin

  4. Marie Curie
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Explanation

Marie Curie, along with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium in 1898. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of these elements.

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