Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Even in the world of science, it is not every ...

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 ...

Marie Curie's discoveries in radioactivity revolutionized science. She handled dangerous radioactive materials before safety standards existed. Curie chose to share her radium discovery freely, ...

Before she had even taken her first step in the United States in 1921, Marie Curie had already discovered the element radium and received a Nobel Prize for its radioactive discovery and diverse ...

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 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 was a scientist whose research changed how people thought about radioactivity and made it possible for new discoveries to be made in chemi.

We open on a young, naive Marie, off to the Sorbonne to become the first female scientist to study there (no explanation is given as to how she came by this extraordinary opportunity). On the train to ...