Despite her scientific achievements, Marie Curie (pictured here in 1925) has long been regarded as a figure whose legacy, ... By contrast, the women in Sobel’s book doubted themselves, and Curie.

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, ... (2016), among other books, takes the familiar story of Marie Curie (1867-1934) and crosscuts it.

Discover the powerful friendship that history forgot in this play filled with heart, humour and chemistry On my ...

Ms. Sobel’s book deftly explores the science of chemistry and the history of radium, while also following the remarkable ...

Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, Curie also led the way for many other female pioneers of science.

Even now nearly a century after her death Marie Curie remains the only female scientists most people can name. Dava Sobel writes that in her new book “The Elements of Marie Curie.” Which is a ...

In her book The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of ­Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024), author (and Scientific American poetry editor) Dava Sobel ...

Dava Sobel, preeminent science writer, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author, joins John Williams to discuss the new book, “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow ...

The book details the life of Marie Curie and the untold story of the dozens of young women who studied and worked with her in Paris. First, let me tell you just how much I enjoyed the book.