"I loved this woman who is unapologetic. I loved this woman who is uncompromising. I love this woman who really does not care, because she does not have the time to care about what people may think ...

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." -- Marie Curie Female scientists fill the hallways of the finest educational institutions, sit on grant committees and preside ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

When Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize – the first person to do so, and the only Nobel laureate still to have been awarded the prize in two different branches of science – you'd expect her to be ...

The story of Marie and Pierre Curie is one of love, scientific partnership and one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. Artist and author Lauren Redniss discusses her new book, ...

When Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize – the first person to do so, and the only Nobel laureate still to have been awarded the prize in two different branches of science – you’d expect her to be ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dr. Robert Abbe [b. April 13, 1851; d. March 7, 1928] a surgeon and early proponent of radium therapy, presented this ...

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No detail was too small for Rosamund Pike, the British Oscar-nominated “Gone Girl” star, to play the legendary scientist Marie Curie, the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes, in “Radioactive.” ...