Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out pioneering research into radioactivity. Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw on 7 November 1867 ...

Discovered radium and polonium, paving the way for advancements in medicine and nuclear science. Developed AC electricity ...

A cat named after the brilliant Polish chemist Marie Curie is looking for her forever family in Texas. Curie, the actual ...

As well as the fuss over her second Nobel Prize (she wins the second for discovering radium and polonium, as well as determining radium's atomic weight) – the Royal Society won't grant her a ...

Curie, the actual person, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of polonium and radium, the first person to ever win two Nobel Prizes and the only person to ever win in two ...

The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum is a museum in Warsaw, Poland, devoted to the life and work of Polish double Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), who discovered the chemical elements ...

Between 1898 and 1902, Marie and Pierre discovered two, completely new elements: polonium and radium. They also discovered that, when exposed to radium, tumor-forming cells were destroyed faster ...

Who invented the printing press or discovered polonium and radium were the easy questions at Saturday's championships.