When Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize – the first person to do so, and the only Nobel laureate still to have been awarded the prize in two different branches of science – you’d expect ...

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 ...

Final Thoughts Marie Curie’s life and work exemplify the pursuit of knowledge, resilience, and the breaking of barriers. Her discoveries in radioactivity not only advanced scientific ...

Nobody could have guessed that this immigrant, with barely a penny to her name, would go on to demolish some of science’s most firmly held beliefs… But Marie Sklodowska Curie was no ordinary ...

FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie ...