Your birth year
2006
Radium Isolation
1898Science breakthrough
Radium Isolation is 108 years older than you
It's from 1898, before you were born.
- Researcher
- Marie Curie
- Researcher age
- 31
- Field
- Radioactivity
About
As of 2026, it's 128 years old.
Radium was identified in 1898 during Marie and Pierre Curie's work on radioactivity.
It belongs in this category as a world-changing breakthrough: it shaped physics, medicine, industry, and the hazards scientists later learned to respect.
Radium Isolation through the years
1898
1898
Radium identified
The Curies announced the discovery of radium.
1903
1903
Nobel Prize in Physics
Radioactivity research was recognized internationally.
You were born — 2006
