Just S of the German border. As Jachmenstal, a spa-town of the Austrian Empire.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Marie Curie discovered, in tons of pitchblende ore containing uraninite from Joachimsthal, the element radium, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Until the First World War this was the only known source of uranium in the world.
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