President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday inaugurated a cenotaph in memory of Robert Badinter at the Pantheon, a mausoleum in ...

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 in ...

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

Curie, daughter of Nobel laureates Marie and Pierre Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 with her husband for synthesizing artificial radioactivity. This discovery revolutionized ...

Life can sometimes feel like a zero-sum game, where you have to let go of some goals (like a successful career) in order to ...

An IAEA project to transfer disused radium sources for use in cancer treatment has now conducted nearly a dozen international transfers. Working in partnership with the IAEA, Tunisia completed the ...

The year was 1898; the month, December; the place, Paris. A woman with blue eyes and blonde hair, and a dark, bearded man worked in taut silence in a place described as a ”cross between a horse stable ...

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Marie and Pierre in the lab, c. 1904. Source: Unknown author/Wikimedia Commons Marie Curie is one of the greatest scientists in history—the first woman to be appointed a professor at the University of ...

As we near the end of Women’s History Month, a time designated to commemorate the role of women in history, we will explore the life of a woman who made tremendous and long-lasting scientific ...