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 ...

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.