Marie Curie was the first woman Nobel Laureate and only person to win in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911). She pioneered radioactivity research and discovered the elements polonium and radium. She ...

They called it the shed, though it was more of a dilapidated hangar. A former anatomy theater, it housed old pinewood tables, a cast-iron stove and a blackboard—all under a high ceiling that leaked.

Marie Curie’s name has long been shorthand for genius, perseverance, and discovery. She was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize but her work in radioactivity did more than shift the ...

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab. By Kate Zernike Kate Zernike is a reporter at The Times. She is the ...

It is of great interest to read between the lines of history-making science. We learn, for example, that "only the great [Ernest] Rutherford knew how to deal with Marie, because he was not awed by her ...

The adage goes "like mother like daughter," and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and ...

The year was 1898; the month, December; the place, Paris. A woman with blue eyes and blonde hair, and a dark, bearded man worked in taut silence in a place described as a ”cross between a horse stable ...

The planned demolition of a Paris laboratory used by pioneering scientist Marie Curie has been suspended after an intervention from France’s minister of culture. The Pavillon des Sources, in central ...