Scientists have confirmed the existence of a unique phase of water called 'plastic ice VII,' which forms under extreme ...

Marie Curie’s scientific journey truly began when she met and married Pierre Curie, a fellow physicist. The couple’s collaborative work led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and ...

Though from different periods of time and backgrounds, these women have all demonstrated strength and perseverance, which ...

This is, of course, a reference to radium, an element that the scientist discovered with her husband, Pierre Curie, with whom she shares one of her two Nobel Prizes (she was the first person ever ...

Irène Curie was born September 12th, 1897 in Paris to Marie and Pierre Curie. She was a shy, serious child and quite attached to her mother. Irène idolized Marie from the start and spent her ...

Curie to apply as a candidate for the chair in the section of physics left vacant by Gernez, and formerly occupied by her husband and collaborator, Pierre Curie. In the preliminary grading of ...

The book also raises interesting questions. It states, for example, that "Rutherford was a first-rate scientist. So was Pierre Curie. If he had been able to make full use of his rich imagination and ...

She is also the only person to date to have won a Nobel in two distinct fields -- for Physics in 1903, which she shared with her husband Pierre Curie, and for Chemistry in 1911. But did you know ...