FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie ...

In October 1914, Marie Curie and her daughter, Irène were driving a rickety van near a First World War battlefield in France. The two women were surrounded by the military – soldiers, officers, medics ...

Residents and their loved ones at a Fenland care home have created a display that poet Wordsworth would be proud of – a host ...

Marie Curie and the Sisterhood of Science ... to find lab space while conducting experiments in a shed next to their home. They are also fighting a battle against sexism. Despite Marie’s ...

We know today this is nonsense, but not then. One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people all over the world and showed that girls are as good at science as boys! When Marie lived in ...