Marie Curie: A Life.Françoise Giroud. Translated by Lydia Davis. Holmes & Meier, New York, 1986. 287 pp. $34.50. This book—an English translation of a version written by Françoise Giroud, a columnist ...

Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system, ... Physicist Ernest Rutherford, whose gold foil experiments changed our understanding of atomic structure, wasn’t convinced.

In 1903, Marie Curie (November 7, 1867–July 4, ... Conference in Brussels, a gathering of the greatest scientific minds of the era, including Einstein, Max Planck, and Ernest Rutherford.

Marie Curie is a name that is now known worldwide thanks to her association with cancer care, but few people know the compelling, tragic story of her scientific journey. From humble beginnings in ...

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925, ... [Ernest] Rutherford, to getting what my body needs and looking after such an agreeable little girl. ...

Not only Einstein and Curie, but also Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, J.H. Jeans and Henri Poincaré were there. Nine participants had won or would win Nobel Prizes.

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science. ... Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, everybody.

The Elements of Marie Curie: ... Brooks was the first graduate student that New Zealand nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford took in his laboratory at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

But instead of just looking at Curie’s own life, Author Dava Sobel views her through the lens of some of the 45 women who passed through Curie’s lab over the course of her career. The book is The ...

Chris Packham explains how Marie Curie’s discovery of polonium and radium changed atomic theory and how her study of radioactivity helped doctors save thousands of lives.