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Old February 13th, 2005, 08:54
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The Wikipedia is fantastic for questions like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898.

Unfortunately the Wikipedia doesn't seem to have the history of calcium. However this site does:

http://www.webelements.com/webelemen...m/history.html

Apparently an Englishman named Sir Humphrey Davy first isolated calcium metal in 1808.