Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925, was awarded a then-unprecedented second Nobel Prize 100 years ago this month. AFP / Getty Images When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May ...

Marie Skłodowska Curie pursued scientific knowledge and achievement with an obsessive passion, dragging the world into the future as she continued to break barriers for women -- even after death. Born ...

They called it the shed, though it was more of a dilapidated hangar. A former anatomy theater, it housed old pinewood tables, a cast-iron stove and a blackboard—all under a high ceiling that leaked.

Banish the dull images of test tubes and musty lecture halls when considering Radioactive (available on Amazon Prime starting July 24th). The biopic traces the career trajectory of Madame Marie Curie ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. And she does it well. The Marie Curie in Radioactive, played by Rosamund ...

Marie Curie and President Warren Harding walk down the White House steps arm in arm in 1921. Library of Congress It was 1921, 23 years after Marie Curie discovered radium, and she was out of the stuff ...

What's the half-life of a movie called "Radioactive?" That is, how long can it sit on a shelf before it loses its kick? Well, the makers of a Madame Curie biopic with that title hoped it would be on ...

#SeeHer Story airs on PEOPLE.com and @PeopleTV social handles Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously ...

Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, a disease brought on, in her case, by exposure to a large amount of radiation from both her laboratory work and from her work running field x-ray machines during ...

It is a good bet that if most scientists and engineers were honest, they would most like to leave something behind that future generations would remember. While Marie Curie met that standard — she was ...

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 was ...