In 1896, Henri Becquerel was studying uranium when he discovered a new type of radiation that could pass through metal. His research got the attention of physicist Marie Curie, who began to study ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. And she does it well. The Marie Curie in Radioactive, played by Rosamund ...

Tuesday night’s episode of National Geographic’s sometimes sexy show Genius kicks off with a flashback to a turn of the century laboratory. A young woman tinkers with some laboratory equipment; a ...

Marie Curie holds a special place in Nobel Prize history—not only the first woman to win the prize, but also one of very few people to have been awarded a second. Both were connected with the element ...

Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win the award twice. Marie’s efforts, with help from husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium ...

A resolute young woman in Paris in the 1890s sets the scientific world ablaze with her revolutionary discoveries in Radioactive, a film about the life of Marie Curie, based on the 2010 graphic novel ...

Marie Curie’s name has long been shorthand for genius, perseverance, and discovery. She was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize but her work in radioactivity did more than shift the ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies’ work ...

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It is of great interest to read between the lines of history-making science. We learn, for example, that "only the great [Ernest] Rutherford knew how to deal with Marie, because he was not awed by her ...

They called it the shed, though it was more of a dilapidated hangar. A former anatomy theater, it housed old pinewood tables, a cast-iron stove and a blackboard—all under a high ceiling that leaked.

Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, a disease brought on, in her case, by exposure to a large amount of radiation from both her laboratory work and from her work running field x-ray machines during ...