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

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 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel prize . Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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