There is plenty of interesting biography in here, explaining how a Polish governess named Marya Sklodowska transformed ...

Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, Curie also led the ...

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

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 radium, ...

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

The name of the book is “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...