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Radium was dicovered by

  1. Marie Curie

  2. Rutherford

  3. Plank

  4. Einstein
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Marie Curie, along with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered radium in 1898. They isolated it from pitchblende ore after processing tons of the material. The Curies also discovered polonium earlier that year. Marie Curie was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

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