(CNN) — The planned demolition of a Paris laboratory used by pioneering scientist Marie Curie has been suspended after an intervention from France’s minister of culture. The Pavillon des Sources, in ...
Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...
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Before she had even taken her first step in the United States in 1921, Marie Curie had already discovered the element radium and received a Nobel Prize for its radioactive discovery and diverse ...
In Dava Sobel's latest book, "The Elements of Marie Curie," the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Galileo’s Daughter," chronicles the life and work of the ...
In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married ...
Given the focus in recent years on women STEM pioneers and the success of movies like “Hidden Figures,” a Marie Curie biopic seems long overdue. The strained, self-important “Radioactive” isn’t the ...
This disappointing history from science writer Sobel (The Glass Universe) comes up short in examining how Marie Curie (1867–1934) kick-started dozens of women scientists’ careers at her University of ...
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