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.

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… ...

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

The demolition of a Paris laboratory used by Nobel winner Marie Curie has been suspended after an intervention from France’s minister of culture. ... where she met Pierre Curie in 1894.