We learn, for example, that "only the great [Ernest] Rutherford knew how to deal with Marie, because he was not awed by her— he liked her." He also is quoted as saying "Madame Curie is a hard person ...

Amid this upheaval, Curie attended the Solvay Conference in Brussels, a gathering of the greatest scientific minds of the era, including Einstein, Max Planck, and Ernest Rutherford.

We learn in Jeffrey Orens’s book “ The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science ” that such gatherings can be disappointing, no matter ...

Madame Curie’s Passion The physicist’s dedication to science made it difficult for outsiders to understand her, but a century after her second Nobel prize, she gets a second look ...

Marie Curie is a name that is now known worldwide thanks to her association with cancer care, but few people know the compelling, tragic story of her scientific journey. From humble beginnings in ...

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 ...

A new book looks at the life of Marie Curie through the lens of some of the 45 women who passed through her laboratory.

Marie Curie, born more than 150 years ago, is still the only woman scientist many people can name. The double Nobel Prize winner is most famous for her discovery of radioactivity and of the ...

Right around the time Madame Curie got interested in uranic rays, Ernest Rutherford, who was then in Canada, also got interested, and was doing a lot of experiments and trying to figure out what ...

Brooks was the first graduate student that New Zealand nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford took in his laboratory at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.