1897 in Paris to Marie and Pierre Curie. She was a shy, serious child and quite attached to her mother. Irène idolized Marie from the start and spent her life trying to get closer to her.

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science ...

Marie Curie, a name synonymous with pioneering scientific ... Despite facing financial hardships after the death of her mother and eldest sister, Curie excelled in her studies, showing an early ...

The “glow of radium” burned away neoplasms but ate into the bones of those who worked with it. X-rays showed up broken and ...

An active fundraiser for a cancer charity is partaking in a worldwide event this Saturday in memory of a “determined” woman who ...

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes: the first in 1903 in physics, ...

Marie Curie was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska in Warsaw in 1867, to a science-teacher father and a headmistress mother. She was proud of her Polish roots, later naming one element polonium. Her mother ...

Famous paintings have been reimagined in a London exhibition highlighting a charity's care for the dying. Charity Marie Curie commissioned artist Lisa Buchanan, also known as Dangerosa, to create ...