“Radium Girls,” a play by D.W. Gregory, tells the true story of a group of female factory workers who fought for justice ...

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

Their nurturing, as much as the discovery of radium, crowned her life’s work. The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel 4th Estate ...

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel prize.Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out ...

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) ...

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

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 ...

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

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