The Half-Life of Marie Curie” continues through July 6 with 8 p.m. shows Thursday through Saturday and a Sunday Matinee at 2 ...

For the Journées du Patrimoine 2025, we're off to Sorbonne Université, on the Pierre et Marie Curie Campus, to discover an ...

Discover the powerful friendship that history forgot in this play filled with heart, humour and chemistry On my ...

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

Curie’s thesis, Recherches sur les substances radioactives, was defended on June 25, 1903.It was among the first major works to establish the field of radioactivity as a legitimate and ...

Sadly, Pierre died in a carriage accident in 1906. Marie, now a widow with two young daughters, accepted Peirre’s appointment as Chair of Physics, becoming the first woman professor at the University ...

Polish-born physicist Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) her husband, French chemist Pierre Curie and their daughter, Irene, in the garden of their French home in 1902.

Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, in 1902. | Agence France Presse, Getty Images. In 1903, Marie Curie made history when she won the Nobel Prize in physics with her husband, Pierre, and ...

Curie’s first laboratory — a shabby wooden shed made available by the École Municipale de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles for her and Pierre’s experiments — had a literal glass ceiling.