Marie and pierre curie

Pierre Curie

In the 1920s a pioneering journalist summoned the might of American women to revive a Nobelist’s career.

• If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated... • Se la gentaglia dovesse continuare a occuparsi di lei, non legga quelle fesserie ma piuttosto le lasci ai rettili per cui sono state prodotte.

Portrait of Polish physicist and chemist, Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934) and her husband, French physicist Pierre Curie (1859-1906), circa 1895. Marie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

Marie Curie giving a lecture . Paris, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers , 1925 . Marie Skłodowska-Curie ( 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person (and only woman) to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to…

Is there room for personal relationships in science? As Valentine’s Day approaches, Ruth Wainman considers an often neglected aspect of the historical study of scientific careers