Her groundbreaking work in radioactivity laid the foundation for numerous advancements in science and medicine. This blog post explores the life and legacy of Marie Curie, highlighting her ...

Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system ... bombarded beryllium with polonium particles and produced powerful radiation. The Joliot-Curies repeated the experiment and then carried ...

In a shabby wooden building at its end, 36 years ago, Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie and ... March 7, 1932). The Curie-Joliot work on radiation was a stout prop for Dr. Chadwick, and his proclamation ...

She realised that these rays must be coming from the substance’s own atoms. Marie Curie called the force behind these rays, ‘radioactivity’. Marie Curie went on to test all the elements known at that ...

One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ... They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most important prize in the world ...

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, we look back at May 23, 1921, when the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania hosted a distinguished visitor – Marie Curie ... by exposure to radioactivity). In her ...