Marie Curie’s scientific journey truly began when she met and married Pierre Curie, a fellow physicist. The couple’s collaborative work led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and ...

including the epoch-making discovery of radium, are set forth. Radium and polonium are not the only fruits of this ideal marriage, which was blessed by the birth of MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE ...

Chris Packham explains how Marie Curie’s discovery of polonium and radium changed atomic theory and how her study of radioactivity helped doctors use X-rays to save thousands of lives.

See also: Why the Element Marie Curie Discovered Also Killed Her A controversy has raged about the discovery of nuclear fission ever since, with critics claiming it represents one of the worst ...

This made her the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. In 1911, Marie Curie won a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of radium and polonium, and for furthering the ...

A cat named after the brilliant Polish chemist Marie Curie is looking for her forever family in Texas. Curie, the actual person, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of ...

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 ...

Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system ... Chadwick snagged the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery, and the Joliot-Curies had to go skulking back to the drawing board.

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

The Evolution of STEM is now coming to life and in brick form as LEGO has unveiled their latest Ideas set with three famous ...

We know today this is nonsense, but not then. One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people all over the world and showed that girls are as good at science as boys! When Marie lived in ...