Did you know that Marie Curie was awarded not one but two Nobel Prizes in the sciences, and that her daughter and son-in-law also won a Nobel Prize in the sciences? That fact, however, pales in ...

This image released by Amazon shows Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in a scene from "Radioactive." (Amazon via AP) This image released by Amazon shows Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in a scene from ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

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Marie Skłodowska Curie pursued scientific knowledge and achievement with an obsessive passion, dragging the world into the future as she continued to break barriers for women -- even after death. Born ...

Critics in Poland say their government is wasting money purchasing a vacation home in France used by Polish-born scientist Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, between 1904 and 1906.

The 120 sq. meters (1,300 sq. feet) stone house where the Nobel-winning scientist couple Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie spent vacation and weekends from 1904-1906 in Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, ...

It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie's discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired several tons of pitchblende, a black ore, and the ...

Tuesday night’s episode of National Geographic’s sometimes sexy show Genius kicks off with a flashback to a turn of the century laboratory. A young woman tinkers with some laboratory equipment; a ...

It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie's discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired several tons of pitchblende, a black ore, and the ...

It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired several tons of pitchblende, a black ore, and the ...