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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1911, Albert Einstein penned an extraordinary letter to Marie Curie. Curie was going through one of the most tumultuous periods of her life, with public opinion pushing strongly against her.

The IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) seeks to inspire and support young women to pursue a career in the nuclear field. To that end, the MSCFP provides scholarships to selected ...