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 ...

Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate.

maria sklodowska curie fotobiografia 4_6102442.jpg, portrait, Maria Skłodowska-Curie: The Nobel Pioneer, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Birmingham, 1913, photo: Emka Studio Publishing House, center The first ...

The physicist-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard-won “fairy lights,” which, the two believed, held the secrets of radioactivity.

Marie Curie: A Life By Susan Quinn Simon & Schuster, 509 pages, $30 Reading Susan Quinn’s illuminating and meticulously researched biography of Marie Curie, one ceases to marvel at the P… ...

Pierre and Marie Curie saw Fuller dance and were greatly impressed. The admiration was mutual: Fuller was so captivated by the Curies' radium experiments that she wrote to them in 1905, asking ...

Unlike the original Madame Curie, this kitty would prefer to be the one and only in her household. Marie shared the spotlight with her husband, physicist Pierre Curie, who shared her first Nobel ...

Unlike the original Madame Curie, this kitty would prefer to be the one and only in her household. Marie shared the spotlight with her husband, physicist Pierre Curie, who shared her first Nobel ...

Marie Curie was the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won in physics for her research on radioactivity. She won another Nobel in 1911, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of ...