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

And through the Curie Museum in Paris, I discovered there were at least 45 women who passed through her lab. She was the first woman ever to teach at the Sorbonne. And then that made her a magnet ...

She sets out to show how Curie’s discovery of radium “lit a path for women in science,” namely, the 45 aspiring female scientists who “spent a formative period in the Curie lab at the ...

Now Mme Curie, twice a Nobel Prizewinner, devotes her time to managing the Institut du Radium’s Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris.

Curie is a name synonymous with leading medical research and scientific discovery. Institut Curie was founded in 1909 and was established as a laboratory of excellence, headed up by Marie Curie, the ...

Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, ... the fact 45 aspiring female scientists spent time in the Curies’ lab. ...

In the Curie Laboratory of Paris’ Institut du Radium Irène Curie-Joliot and Jean Frederic Joliot were shooting alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) at the lightweight element beryllium.

Dava Sobel is the author of the forthcoming “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” In the century-plus history of the Nobel Prizes, women have ...

But some 45 women passed through Curie’s laboratory, and Sobel deftly interleaves her biography with sketches of the lives and scientific careers of nearly two dozen of them 2.

When Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize – the first person to do so, and the only Nobel laureate still to have been awarded the prize in two different branches of science – you'd expect ...

Ms. Sobel, a journalist and the author of “Galileo’s Daughter” (1999) and “The Glass Universe” (2016), among other books, takes the familiar story of Marie Curie (1867-1934) and ...

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.