Her groundbreaking work in radioactivity laid the foundation for numerous advancements in science and medicine. This blog post explores the life and legacy of Marie Curie, highlighting her ...

They called it the shed, though it was more of a dilapidated hangar. A former anatomy theater, it housed old pinewood tables, a cast-iron stove and a blackboard—all under a high ceiling that leaked.

Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system ... bombarded beryllium with polonium particles and produced powerful radiation. The Joliot-Curies repeated the experiment and then carried ...

She realised that these rays must be coming from the substance’s own atoms. Marie Curie called the force behind these rays, ‘radioactivity’. Marie Curie went on to test all the elements known at that ...

One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ... They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most important prize in the world ...

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, we look back at May 23, 1921, when the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania hosted a distinguished visitor – Marie Curie ... by exposure to radioactivity). In her ...

Focus: Using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds Funding: Marie Curie Fellowship We are using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds, the core ...

Lauren Gunderson’s play “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” is based on the true friendship of European scientists Marie Curie and ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the ... Continue reading “Irène Joliot-Curie And Artificial Radioactivity” → ...