But the Curies spent long hours working in the lab. Once they won the Nobel Prize for discovering radium, Irene saw her mother even less. Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system ...

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.

Most of us know about Marie Curie being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She is also the only person to date to have won ...

Curie, also known as Marie Curie, has often caused controversies entirely unrelated to the scientific breakthroughs she achieved. Rather, almost 70 years after her passing, a heated debate on the ...

In the early 20th century, two of Europe’s most famous women scientists had to fight the male establishment for lab space ... French-Polish physicist Marie Curie and British electrical engineer ...

"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 ...