Though Marie Curie's discovery of radium broke barriers and advanced science, it wasn't all positive. In fact, it ultimately led to her undoing.

Marie Curie’s scientific journey truly began when she met and married Pierre Curie, a fellow physicist. The couple’s collaborative work led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and ...

Irène Curie was born September 12th, 1897 in Paris to Marie and Pierre Curie. She was a shy, serious child and quite attached to her mother. Irène idolized Marie from the start and spent her ...

Though from different periods of time and backgrounds, these women have all demonstrated strength and perseverance, which ...

This is, of course, a reference to radium, an element that the scientist discovered with her husband, Pierre Curie, with whom she shares one of her two Nobel Prizes (she was the first person ever ...

Curie to apply as a candidate for the chair in the section of physics left vacant by Gernez, and formerly occupied by her husband and collaborator, Pierre Curie. In the preliminary grading of ...

The book also raises interesting questions. It states, for example, that "Rutherford was a first-rate scientist. So was Pierre Curie. If he had been able to make full use of his rich imagination and ...