Marie Sklodowka Curie (1867 - 1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre, for their work in radioactivity.

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium with her husband, Pierre. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925, was awarded a then-unprecedented second Nobel Prize 100 years ago this month. AFP / Getty Images. When Marie ... Her father, a science teacher, ...

Marie Curie, who was born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, ... Maria received extra science training from her father, and when she graduated from high school at age 15, ...

Her family encouraged her, especially her father, who awakened her interest in science. He believed she deserved an education — even though in Warsaw, where Marie was born in 1867, her sex ...

Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska from a poor family in Poland, ... Her father had been cut loose a little bit for previous views on the Russian overlords. And so they struggled day to day.

Marie Curie redefined the role of women in science by training a generation of “lab daughters” to have stellar careers, shows Dava Sobel's detailed and intimate new biography, The Elements of ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early 20th-century ... My father always encouraged me to go into ...

Her father-in-law moved in with the couple to babysit for their two children. After Pierre and Marie Curie shared the Nobel, the Sorbonne gave Pierre a professorial chair; ...