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POLONIUMSilvery-grey, radioactive semi-metal that was discovered by Marie Curie in 1898 (8)
SCANDIUMA silvery metal that was discovered by Lars Fredrik Nilson in 1879 (8)
GERMANIUMA silvery white semi-metal that was used in early transistors (9)
PIKERosamund ... plays physicist Marie Curie in Radioactive (4)
LAPOTAIREJane ____ played Marie Curie in a 1977 BBC miniseries and Edith Piaf in RSC productions of an autobiographical play
RADIUMElement atomic no. 88 that was discovered by the Curies in 1898 (6)
TUNGSTENA shiny, silvery white metal that was once used for the filaments of incandescent light bulbs (8)
MAURITIAName for the dense mass of continental crust in the Indian Ocean stretching between Madagascar and India; it was discovered by scientists in 2017. (8)
ANTIMONYSemi-metal with the atomic number 51 (8)
PAPILLONFavoured by Marie Antoinette, a breed of toy spaniel whose name means butterfly in French (8)
SMALLPOXInfectious disease now considered eradicated; its first vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner in 1796 (5,3)
SOLITUDECareless Curie in isolation (8)
LEDAMoon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4)
CHEMISTRYNobel prize won in 1911 by Marie Curie (9)
DIONEThis moon was discovered by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini in 1684 and named for a daughter of the Titan Oceanus in Greek mythology. It is accompanied in its orbit by two muc
THEBEInner satellite of Jupiter that was discovered in 1979 (5)
PHOEBESatellite of the planet Saturn that was discovered in the late 19th Century (6)
PHOBOSA moon of Mars that was discovered in 1877 (6)
NOBELPrizewon by Marie Curie
TUSSAUDThe famous waxworks museum was founded in London in 1835 by Marie ...