The physicist-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard-won “fairy lights,” which, the two believed, held the secrets of radioactivity.

The physicists-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard-won “fairy lights,” which, the two believed, held ...

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 ...

Marie Curie's daughter Irène Joliot-Curie, and her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, circa 1940. | Central Press, Hulton Archive, Getty Images When Marie and Pierre won their Nobel Prize in 1903 ...

Possibly Mme Curie thought of the years of her work alone, of how she established the atomic nature of radioactivity, of how she isolated pure radium from the chloride, of her work on cancer ...

In June 1921, in the flush of a triumphant six-week American tour by Marie Curie, a prominent male scientist urged the young women graduating from Bryn Mawr to follow her example and “enter into ...

Pierre Curie was born in Paris on May 15, 1839. He was the son of a physician, and early showed his bent for scientific research. He was educated at the Sorbonne, and when only 20 years old began ...

The demolition of a Paris laboratory used by Nobel winner Marie Curie has been suspended after an intervention from France’s minister of culture. ... where she met Pierre Curie in 1894.

Unlike the original Madame Curie, this kitty would prefer to be the one and only in her household. Marie shared the spotlight with her husband, physicist Pierre Curie, who shared her first Nobel ...

The Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) was France's largest medical and scientific institution. Established in 1971 following the break-up of the old University of Paris, its roots could be ...