Marie Curie made groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity, earning her two Nobel Prizes. She discovered polonium and ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a unique phase of water called 'plastic ice VII,' which forms under extreme ...

When Marie Curie died in 1934, the discoverer of actinium ... Marguerite’s work was recognized, and in time she was promoted from a simple lab assistant to a radiochemist.

In a shabby wooden building at its end, 36 years ago, Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie and ... her time to managing the Institut du Radium’s Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing ...

But the Curies spent long hours working in the lab. Once they won the Nobel Prize for discovering radium, Irene saw her mother even less. Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system ...

One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ... Marie won another Nobel Prize and the university built her a laboratory. Marie worked hard to find a cure for cancer - nobody knew ...

We learn, for example, that "only the great [Ernest] Rutherford knew how to deal with Marie, because he was not awed by her— he liked her." He also is quoted as saying "Madame Curie is a hard person ...

Curie was on a fundraising tour. Through a campaign organized by Marie 'Missy' Mattingly Meloney ... but she has given the fruits of her labor to her laboratory. So she could not afford to travel ...