This element had been discovered thirty years before by a chemist who had also been working in the Curie laboratory, but this was the height of the chemical revolution and the studies and research ...

Curie’s company.” They are the “elements” of Marie Curie’s lab, perhaps even more so than the radioactive ones she is so famous for isolating. She drew them to her, and through her ...

devotes her time to managing the Institut du Radium’s Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone.

Many of Curie's clothing, furniture, and books, especially lab instruments, remain very radioactive after more than 100 years. Objects like her laboratory notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes ...

"Madame Curie is a teacher of science and she has a teacher's salary. She is one of the richest women in the world in scientific lore, but she has given the fruits of her labor to her laboratory. So ...