Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, destroyed diseased cells faster than healthy ones. Could the element fight ...

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

Marie eventually became the director of the Red Cross Radiology Service, overseeing the creation of the first military radiation center. Marie died on July 4, 1934, at the age of 66. Doctors believed ...

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 ...

The Marie Curie in Radioactive, played by Rosamund Pike, is razor-sharp, candid, and intolerant of nonsense in all its forms. ... Marie began studying radioactivity in 1897.

Tragic end of Marie Curie’s life and radiation that remains. On 4 July 1934, Marie Curie died from a rare lethal blood disease because of the exposure to the radioactive elements.

Curie would publish a new paper on radioactivity in 1910, which led to her second Nobel Prize, this time a solo award in Chemistry. To this day, Marie Curie is one of only six people to win more ...

Described as “almost pathologically shy” by the Smithsonian Magazine, an inveterate researcher, and a two-time Nobel Laureate, Marie Curie delineated radioactivity, and her works transformed ...

Marie Curie was the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won in physics for her research on radioactivity. She won another Nobel in 1911, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, ... In 1903 Marie and Pierre seemed to be on the verge of a radiation revolution. But only Marie would carry radium into the future.