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

Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, destroyed diseased cells faster than healthy ones. Could the element fight ...

Marie Curie’s life offers some ideas. ... She undertook her own doctoral research in physics, married a fellow physicist and later became director of the teaching academy.

In 1911, Albert Einstein penned an extraordinary letter to Marie Curie. Curie was going through one of the most tumultuous periods of her life, with public opinion pushing strongly against her.

This article was originally published with the title “ Marie Curie’s Hidden Network ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 332 No. 2 (February 2025), p. 78 doi:10.1038 ...

Director Kym Pappas, second from left, with the cast of New Village Arts’ “The Half-Life of Marie Curie,”Leigh Scarritt, left, Jonni Garro and Rachael VanWormer. (New Village Arts) By David ...

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 ...

It is one of those lesser-known chapters that Lauren Gunderson explores in The Half-Life of Marie Curie, a play that premiered off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre in 2019, and was later ...

Manila, Philippines--“The Half-Life of Marie Curie,” a one-act play by Lauren Gunderson, humanizes historical figures, two-time Nobel Peace Prize winner Marie Curie, and a lesser-known ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

Woven into the account of Curie’s life are the lives of other women—her students and collaborators, future colleagues who began their work in the dismal shed and then rose to prominence in ...