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 ...

One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ... Marie married another scientist, Pierre. They worked together to find out about the tiny parts, called elements, that make up ...

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 ...

Curie, also known as Marie Curie, has often caused controversies entirely unrelated to the scientific breakthroughs she achieved. Rather, almost 70 years after her passing, a heated debate on the ...

FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie ...