In the spring of 1905, a tempestuous Italian medium named Eusapia Palladino arrived in Paris, ready to prove that she was able to summon the spirits of the dead. She conducted more than 40 séances for ...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, Marie Curie grew up in a world where science was strictly a man’s domain. That didn’t stop her from getting an education from an illegal university; making ...

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Marie Curie is one of the most influential scientists and historical figures in modern history, so it’s about time she got a biopic to honor her legacy. Radioactive, starring Rosamund Pike as the ...

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LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UPI) --Sam Riley and Rosamund Pike play Nobel Prize-winning scientists Pierre and Marie Curie in the new film Radioactive. Riley said that to be convincing in presenting ...

Everything about Marie Curie was exceptional. To start with, how many people can you think of who have four Nobel Prize laureates in their immediate family? She did! Marie, her husband (Pierre), her ...

She co-created the French Atomic Energy Commission in 1945 and held a six-year term, promoting nuclear research and development of the first French nuclear reactor. She later became director of the ...

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925, was awarded a then-unprecedented second Nobel Prize 100 years ago this month. AFP / Getty Images When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May ...

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 ...