Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

Marie Curie is unique as the only person to have received Nobel Prizes in two different natural sciences — Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Her husband, Pierre, was a co-winner on her first ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and ...

Pierre and Marie Curie are the only husband and wife to have received the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing the award with Antoine Henri Becquerel in 1903.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University and Andrea Richard, Ohio University (THE ...