{"web": "", "slide": "<p>The Curies' work contributed substantially to shaping the world of the 20th and 21st centuries, first in its physical realm. Radium's radioactivity was so great that it could not be ignored. \n   <ul><li>It forced reconsideration of the very foundations of physics. \n</p>\n<p></li><li>The discovery of radium provided men like Ernest Rutherford with sources of radioactivity with which they could probe the structure of the atom. \n</p>\n<p></li><li>As a result of Rutherford's experiments with alpha radiation, the nuclear atom was first postulated. In medicine, the radioactivity of radium appeared to offer a means by which cancer could be successfully attacked.</li></ul>\n</p>", "sources": "", "Feedback": "", "title": "Progress for Humankind"}