Marie Curie's profound quote, "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand ...
Quote of the Day by Marie Curie reminds readers that real progress never arrives quickly. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist ...
The two-time Nobel Prize winner is a legend in modern science.
Marie Curie's words highlight a common human tendency to focus on future tasks, overlooking past accomplishments. This ...
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 ...
When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements radium and polonium, coined the term “radio-active” and won the Nobel Prize—twice.
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the discoverer of radium and polonium, Marie Curie is one of scientific history’s pioneers. Yet as playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” ...
ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children, and became known as “Manya” by her family. She was a ...
It is a good bet that if most scientists and engineers were honest, they would most like to leave something behind that future generations would remember. While Marie Curie met that standard — she was ...
Laurie Roberts and Stela Burdt perform at the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro, Minnesota in "The Half-Life of Marie Curie," which shows from April 5 to July 5, 2025.