Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie shared the Nobel Prize in 1935. Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and ...

Famous winners of Nobel Prizes include Martin Luther King Jr, who won a Peace Prize in 1964 "for his non-violent struggle for ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

Marie Curie, a name synonymous with scientific brilliance, lived a life punctuated by groundbreaking discoveries and personal sacrifices. Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, she became a pioneer in the ...

In the bright, glass-walled conference halls of the W Hotel in Dubai’s Palm district, amid the soft hum of translation ...

A study warns that a magnitude 7.2 West Valley Fault quake could kill 33,500, injure 113,600, and damage 13% of homes in Metro Manila. Buildings, bridges, and utilities would also suffer damage, and i ...

The grave of former French justice minister Robert Badinter was desecrated on Thursday, a few hours before President Emmanuel Macron was set to dedicate a cenotaph in his memory in central Paris.