Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, destroyed diseased cells faster than healthy ones. Could the element fight ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

Sadly, Pierre died in a carriage accident in 1906. Marie, now a widow with two young daughters, accepted Peirre’s appointment as Chair of Physics, becoming the first woman professor at the University ...

At age 46, Pierre fell under the wheels of a horse-drawn cart and was killed instantly. Curie died later, aged 66, of aplastic anaemia. Pike describes the pair as “innocents”; ...

Pierre died in 1906, after being struck by a horse-drawn wagon. After Pierre’s death, Marie was asked to fulfill his duties at their laboratory and in his classroom.