Curium is a synthetic radioactive element with the chemical symbol Cm and atomic number 96. It was discovered in 1944 by chemists Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg, and Emilio Segrè while they were experimenting with plutonium in a laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. The element is named after Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie, in honor of their contributions to the field of radioactivity.
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Curium is the chemical element with atomic number 96 and symbol . It is a actinide. It has no stable isotopes and is produced through nuclear transformations. Its common trivalent chemistry helps organize its separation from other actinides, while its radioactive decay gives it physical behavior absent from a stable chemical analogue.[ref]