Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium with her husband, Pierre. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Marie Curie’s lab is still radioactive, and France has to clean it up. 16 cool inventions getting us off fossil fuels and on green energy. 101 companies who are working to reduce their carbon ...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, Marie Curie grew up in a world where science was strictly a man’s domain. That didn’t stop her from getting an education from an illegal university; making ...

Screen grab/Biography.com 2015-11-09T00:45:00Z Share ... In 1911, Marie Curie was denied membership with the French Academy of Sciences for the second time.

Here, the real story of Marie Curie, trailblazing woman scientist. Print Collector // Getty Images Marya Sklodovska (Marie Curie) with her sister Bronya, seated, in 1886.

Marie Curie: a Biography Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Prometheus, $17 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-61614-216-2. This concise look at the life of one of the most famous female scientist gives readers ...

Eve Curie Labouisse, 102, a journalist who wrote a best-selling biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, died Monday at her Manhattan apartment, said her ...