Polish-French Marie (1867 – 1934)
and French Pierre (1859 – 1906) Curie
physicists and chemists
conducting pioneering research on 'radioactivity'
(a term she coined)
won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
by the isolation of radium
for the discovery
of the element Polonium
elementary (possibly hyperbole)
recovery even so
a short poem on atomic number 84 is
'Po'
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