1. Marie Curie’s parents were teachers. Maria Skłodowska was the fifth and youngest child of two Polish educators. Her parents placed a high value on learning and insisted that all their ...

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

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.

Dava Sobel is the author of the forthcoming “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” In the century-plus history of the Nobel Prizes, women have ...

The ruling, handed down Friday, came after a group of parents challenged a Maryland school system's refusal to let parents ...

“Radioactive,” a thoughtful, very watchable fictionalized portrait of Marie Curie, tries hard to nudge the halo off its subject. Given her endeavors and accolades — including two Nobel ...

The high court’s decision purports to protect religious diversity, which was never truly threatened. Instead, this decision could easily become a slippery slope, resulting in parents removing their ...

FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie ...

Polish scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie, also known as Marie Curie, has often caused controversies entirely unrelated to the scientific breakthroughs she achieved. Rather, almost 70 years after ...

When Marie lived in Poland girls were not allowed to go to university, so her parents had to send her in secret. She later moved to Paris to study. Marie married another scientist, Pierre.