THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE: HOW THE GLOW OF RADIUM LIT A PATH FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE by Dava Sobel (4th Estate £22, 336pp) The Elements of Marie Curie is available now from the Mail Bookshop.

Marie Curie holds a special place in Nobel Prize history—not only the first woman to win the prize, but also one of very few people to have been awarded a second. Both were connected with the ...

Even in death, Marie Curie’s body held a secret: it remained radioactive, requiring a special lead-lined coffin for burial. Marie Curie, a science hero, made groundbreaking discoveries about ...

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6382-0.

Even now nearly a century after her death Marie Curie remains the only female scientists most people can name. Dava Sobel writes that in her new book “The Elements of Marie Curie.” Which is a ...

Not remotely about the song by Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive” is a biopic about the Polish and naturalized French chemist and physicist known to the world as Marie “Madame” Curie, maiden ...

‘Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge’ lacks vital elements. By G. Allen Johnson, Staff Writer Updated July 20, ... Instead, Curie’s lab is ridiculously neat, as if it has never been used.

The periodic table is 150 years old, so we've looked at some of its most intriguing elements. ... Curium, named after the double Nobel laureate Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, ...

‘Radioactive’: Marie Curie film made up of all the standard biopic elements Rosamund Pike plays the brilliant scientist in a movie that can’t decide whether to be straightforward or fanciful.

Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, Curie also led the way for many other female pioneers of science.