Marie Curie, born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, arrived in Paris in 1891 to pursue higher education in a society and an era where women were severely underrepresented in the sciences.

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, left behind a legacy that still continues to inspire us, as the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in different fields for her ...

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 Book review ...

Curie died of illness related to radiation exposure in 1934. Scientific American spoke with Sobel about Marie Curie’s contributions to science, history and gender equality.

Her remains are interred, with those of Pierre, in the Panthéon in Paris, the mausoleum reserved for France’s greatest figures. Maria Skłodowska-Curie never thought her encyclopaedic life worthy of a ...

She sets out to show how Curie’s discovery of radium “lit a path for women in science,” namely, the 45 aspiring female scientists who “spent a formative period in the Curie lab at the ...

The physicist-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard-won “fairy lights,” which, the two believed, held the secrets of radioactivity.