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In 1896, a young Marie Curie, Polish physicist and mathematician, became fascinated by uranium.

She was inspired by scientist Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity, which took place that same year. Curie herself coined the term “radioactivity” to describe the occurrence of radiation [...]