The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...

Marie was the first woman ever to receive this! Marie and Pierre found that radium could help the body fight cancer cells. Sadly Pierre died when he was just 46. Marie took over his teaching job ...

she discovered an even more powerful element… MARIE-NOELLE HIMBERT: Radium… CHRIS PACKHAM: Sulphate of radium. Curie not only discovered radium, she realised what it could be used for ...

In early 2024, plans to demolish the Pavillon were strongly opposed by defenders of Parisian heritage. It was then announced ...

The wonder of radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became a status symbol For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others trains ...

But only Marie would carry radium into the future. Ms. Sobel, a journalist and the author of “Galileo’s Daughter” (1999) and “The Glass Universe” (2016), among other books, takes the ...

The 2019 play by Lauren Gunderson explores the friendship Curie shared with fellow widow, inventor and suffragette Hertha ...

By the summer of 1899, the Curies had isolated a new element and Marie named it ‘polonium’ after her home country. By December of that year, they had found another new element, ‘radium’, named after ...