Curium is element 96, an actinoid of the f block, in period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 5f7 6d1 7s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 3, 4.
It was discovered in 1944, by Seaborg.
Name origin: Pierre Curie, a physicist, and Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist.
The periodic table, read every way a chemistry course asks for. This tool needs JavaScript; these are the pages it offers: