Marie Curie: Mentor to Women or Martyr to Science?

Marie Curie: Mentor to Women or Martyr to Science? In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab. Share full article ... Read More

How Marie Curie Helped a Generation of Women Break into Science ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Marie Curie’s Hidden Network ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 332 No. 2 (February 2025), p. 78 doi:10.1038 ... Read More

Marie Curie: The Pioneer of Radioactivity and a Legacy of Scientific ...

Marie Curie’s scientific journey truly began when she met and married Pierre Curie, a fellow physicist. The couple’s collaborative work led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and ... Read More

Marie Curie’s Mentorship Led to Networks of Support for Female ...

In The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, author Dava Sobel celebrates the many women who came to Paris to work with Marie Curie after she won the ... Read More

Women win a fraction of scientific Nobels. Marie Curie offers fixes.

Dava Sobel is the author of the forthcoming “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” In the century-plus history of the Nobel Prizes, women have ... Read More

How Marie Curie impacted other women in science

Dava Sobel, preeminent science writer, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author, joins John Williams to discuss the new book, “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow ... Read More

Ninety years on, she's still the only female scientist you can name ...

GLENDA COOPER reviews The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science By GLENDA COOPER Published: 21:23 EDT, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 04:45 EDT, 1 November 2024 ... Read More

Bitesize Horrible Science: Women of Science - BBC Bitesize

In this Horrible Science banger, discover more about Mary Anning, Marie Curie, Lise Meitner and Kathrine Johnson. Image caption, Four of the most influential women in science: Mary Anning, Marie ... Read More

Happy Birthday to Marie Curie - a pioneer for women in science!

On the 7th November Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel prize, was born in Warsaw, Poland and she changed the course of science forever! At age 24, she enrolled at the Sorbonne University ... Read More

What if Marie Curie’s greatest legacy was not her two Nobel ... - Nature

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel Atlantic Monthly Press (2024). I vividly remember reading a biography of Maria Skłodowska (known as ... Read More

Indian student awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship for women in ...

Hemangi Shrivastava, an Indian master's student at Moscow Power Engineering Institute, has received the prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme for women in nuclear science. Read More