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 ...

Chromolithograph of Marie and Pierre Curie looking at a vial of radium, from Vanity Fair (December 22, 1904). The Curies won the Nobel Prize for Physics, for their discovery of radioactivity, in 1903.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dava Sobel is the author of the forthcoming “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” In the century-plus history of the Nobel Prizes, women have ...

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 ...

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925, was awarded a then-unprecedented second Nobel Prize 100 years ago this month. AFP / Getty Images. When Marie ... In 1894, she met Pierre Curie, ...

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 ...

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 ...

FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie ...

Marie and Pierre found that radium could help the body fight cancer cells. Sadly Pierre died when he was just 46. ... In 1895, Marie married another scientist called Pierre Curie.