Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

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 ...

Even in death, Marie Curie’s body held a secret: it remained radioactive, requiring a special lead-lined coffin for burial.

Marie Curie was the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won in physics for her research on radioactivity. She won another Nobel in 1911, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of ...

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.

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel prize . Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out ...

4. Curie added two elements to the Periodic Table. The second Nobel Prize Marie Curie received recognized her discovery and research of two elements: radium and polonium.

She sets out to show how Curie’s discovery of radium “lit a path for women in science,” namely, the 45 aspiring female scientists who “spent a formative period in the Curie lab at the ...

Marie Curie's groundbreaking work in radioactivity, earning her two Nobel Prizes, led to significant contributions in science and medicine. Despite her discoveries of polonium and radium ...

Curie is a name synonymous with leading medical research and scientific discovery. Institut Curie was founded in 1909 and was established as a laboratory of excellence, headed up by Marie Curie, the ...

The discovery of radium and polonium earned Marie Curie the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Credit: Alfred Hugh Fisher/The Print Collector/Heritage Images/SPL ...