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 Skłodowska Curie pursued scientific knowledge and achievement with an obsessive passion, dragging the world into the future as she continued to break barriers for women -- even after death. Born ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is one of the most influential scientists and historical figures in modern history, so it’s about time she got a biopic to honor her legacy. Radioactive, starring Rosamund Pike as the ...

Critics in Poland say their government is wasting money purchasing a vacation home in France used by Polish-born scientist Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, between 1904 and 1906.

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 ...

In December 1911, in the midst of a widely publicized adultery scandal, Marie Curie was urged to wait until her name had been cleared before claiming the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In defending her ...