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 ...

Everything about Marie Curie was exceptional. To start with, how many people can you think of who have four Nobel Prize laureates in their immediate family? She did! Marie, her husband (Pierre), her ...

Sometimes I’m glad I’m old(ish) and have made it up the career ladder. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a young woman trying to become established today. Not only are they likely to be ...

Eve Curie Labouisse, a journalist and humanitarian best known for her biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, died Monday at her home on the Upper East Side of ...

Radioactive is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, and tells the story of iconic scientist Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and the only woman to win it twice). Rosamund Pike takes ...

Marie and Pierre in the lab, c. 1904. Source: Unknown author/Wikimedia Commons Marie Curie is one of the greatest scientists in history—the first woman to be appointed a professor at the University of ...

MARIE Curie was a pioneering scientist who made a vital contribution to finding treatments for cancer. She was willing to toil for hours on mind numbing tasks to succeed but, despite her fame, found ...

Sometimes I’m glad I’m old(ish) and have made it up the career ladder. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a young woman trying to become established today. Not only are they likely to be ...