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.

Marie Curie was born Marya (Manya) Salomee Sklodowska on Nov. 7, 1867 ... The youngest of five children, she had three older sisters and a brother. Her parents — father, Wladislaw, and ...

Her parents were both teachers who expected all their children to excel ... Still, in 1911, Marie Curie snagged a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, making her one of just two ...

Irene Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie's daughter, continued her parents' Nobel legacy, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on artificial radioactivity, while also making significant ...

“Marie Curie” gets the look right — the costumes, ... After all, she would carry on her parents’ work and, as Irene Joliot-Curie, would win her own Nobel Prize in chemistry.