French director Jean-Pierre Thorn, who was known for his socially engaged cinema and was also a co-founder of indie cinema ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early 20th-century 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 ...

Tragic end of Marie Curie’s life and radiation that remains On 4 July 1934, Marie Curie died from a rare lethal blood disease because of the exposure to the radioactive elements.

In 1898, Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, discovered the element Polonium, which was found to be 400 times more radioactive than Uranium. In December of that year, Marie Curie then discovered ...

Mme Curie died of pernicious anemia July 4, 1934, but last week when her 70th birthday rolled around the Joliot-Curies received congratulations on her behalf. To them the salutes were ironic.

The research, meanwhile, exacted another price: ill-health caused by radiation. Irène Joliot-Curie succumbed to leukaemia aged 58 (her writer sister Ève died aged 102). Marie died in 1934 aged 66, of ...

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

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