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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 120 sq. meters (1,300 sq. feet) stone house where the Nobel-winning scientist couple Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie spent vacation and weekends from 1904-1906 in Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Helmer Daniel Sullivan has assembled a topflight cast and goodlooking Geffen Playhouse production for Alan Alda's "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie." For a while we’re back with Greer Garson and ...