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The Half-Life of Marie Curie is playing at Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, until July 12. Find tickets & info at ensemble.com.au.

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Marie, as she became known in France, studied physics, chemistry, and math at the University. When she began to seek out more laboratory space to continue her studies, a Polish physicist introduced ...

Marie Curie’s coffin made of 2.5 millimeters of thick black lead The black box that held Curie’s coffin was discovered that was not made of wood but actually 2.5 millimetres thick black lead.

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 ...

Polish-born physicist Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) her husband, French chemist Pierre Curie and their daughter, Irene, in the garden of their French home in 1902. Photo / Getty Images ...

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 and Pierre’s other son-in-law, Henry Labouisse, who married their younger daughter, Ève Curie, accepted a Nobel Prize for Peace on behalf of UNICEF, of which he was the executive director ...

Curie’s first laboratory — a shabby wooden shed made available by the École Municipale de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles for her and Pierre’s experiments — had a literal glass ceiling.

An edited transcript of the interview follows. How did you learn about the female scientists Curie worked with? In 2020 I was asked to review a book called Women in Their Element, a collection of ...