Marie Curie, born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, arrived in Paris in 1891 to pursue higher education in a society and an era where women were severely underrepresented in the sciences.

Polish-born physicist Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) her husband, French chemist Pierre Curie and their daughter, Irene, in the garden of their French home in 1902. Photo / Getty Images Book review ...

An edited transcript of the interview follows. How did you learn about the female scientists Curie worked with? In 2020 I was asked to review a book called Women in Their Element, a collection of ...

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

Marie Curie. Credit: Library of Congress When you consider someone’s legacy in science, you might think about their biggest discovery, their list of publications, or their titles, awards, and prizes.

Her first Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel in 1903, recognized their collective work on radioactivity—a term Curie herself coined. The tragic loss of ...

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… ...

Marie Curie’s Paris lab, where the Polish-born Nobel laureate pioneered groundbreaking research, gets a reprieve from demolition. Let’s keep the legacy of this extraordinary scientist alive ...

Marie Curie was famous for her studies in radioactivity. She, along with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered the elements Polonium and Radium. She was awarded the physics Nobel in 1903, along with ...