It was from this mine in Nelas, Viseu district, that radioactive ore came out to the laboratory of Franco-Polish scientist Marie Sklodowska-Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize twice and the first woman to receive the honor. It also provided the United Kingdom and the United States of America in the post-World War II, at a time when the world's largest powers were in a race for the supremacy of nuclear weapons in the Cold War against the Soviet Unio…
It was from this mine in Nelas, Viseu district, that radioactive ore came out to the laboratory of Franco-Polish scientist Marie Sklodowska-Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize twice and the first woman to receive the honor. It also provided the United Kingdom and the United States of America in the post-World War II, at a time when the world's largest powers were in a race for the supremacy of nuclear weapons in the Cold War against the Soviet Unio…