This last facet of her story is at the core of Dava Sobel’s new book, The Elements of Marie Curie, which follows 2016’s The ...

Marie Curie, an emblematic figure in the world of science, has left an indelible mark on the fabric of physics and chemistry.

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science ...

Everything I have done,' she once declared. 'I owe to Marie Curie.' The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, by Dava Sobel (4th Estate £22, 336pp) ...

Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium, advancing the study of radioactivity—a term she coined. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains ...

When Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize ... Marguerite Perey joined Curie’s Radium Institute in 1929 and went on to discover the element francium. Three decades later, she became ...

The “glow of radium” burned away neoplasms but ate into the bones of those who worked with it. X-rays showed up broken and ...

THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, by Dava Sobel In June 1921, in the flush of a triumphant six-week American tour by Marie Curie, a prominent ...

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes: the first in 1903 in physics, ...

today called the Curie Institute. Source: American Institute of Physics When war broke out in 1914, the Radium Institute's work was postponed. In a letter to French physicist Paul Langevin, Marie ...

Dava Sobel, preeminent science writer, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author, joins John ...