Most of us know about Marie Curie being the first woman ... the revolutionary work that had defined her family's ...

Once they won the Nobel Prize for discovering radium, Irene saw her mother even less. Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system, which discouraged free thought in favor of rote ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies ...