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

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the discoverer of radium and polonium, Marie Curie is one of scientific history’s pioneers. Yet as playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” ...

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 ...

Laurie Roberts and Stela Burdt perform at the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro, Minnesota in "The Half-Life of Marie Curie," which shows from April 5 to July 5, 2025.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Although Marie Curie didn’t visit the Land of Enchantment during either of her two journeys to the United States ...

Erase Marie Curie from history and we’d be dying in the streets. The Polish-born scientist was the first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize when she developed the theory of radioactivity alongside her ...