Pierre Curie died in 1906. The scientist was run over by a horse-drawn carriage in Paris. Marie was crushed by the loss, and the passages she wrote in her diary at the time are a testament to her ...

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

Marie Curie is well known as the first genius to have snagged two Nobel Prizes. The first came in 1903, when she and her husband, Pierre, were awarded a Nobel Prize in physics for their radiation ...

After Pierre Curie died tragically at a young age, Curie went onto win a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. She is the only woman to win the award twice, and the only person ever to win in ...

Marie and Pierre Curie admitted to not fully ... have come away from Palladino’s séances as a firm disbeliever in the possibility of a spirit world—because after Pierre died, ...

Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, a disease brought on, in her case, by exposure to a large amount of radiation from both her laboratory work and from her work running field x-ray machines during ...

Marie and Pierre Curie pictured on their honeymoon ... On July 4, 1934, Curie died of aplastic anemia — a condition that occurs when the bone marrow fails to produce new blood cells.

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.