Marie Skłodowska Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, in November of 1867. She was the youngest of five children in a family of educators who valued education highly. Despite facing financial ...

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 ...

Nobody could have guessed that this immigrant, with barely a penny to her name, would go on to demolish some of science’s most firmly held beliefs… But Marie Sklodowska Curie was no ordinary ...