Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140313:01:41:00
Marie currie, nobel prize in physics, chemistry. we have the word radioactive because marie currie figured out radio activity. she came up with that term. the unit we use to describe how radioactive something is is a currie, it was named for her. she was polish by birth. the first radioactive element she discovered she call ed polium. she worked with and discovered radioactive elements all her life and it killed her. she died by a form of anemia, brought on by exposure to radio activity. the second of the two elements has the added and memorable feature of growing in the dark, just like everyt...
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