Women populate the business and political scenes worldwide in a way that would do early feminists proud. If you think it was hard for a woman to become a mayor or CEO in the first half of the 20th ...

When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements radium and polonium, coined the term “radio-active” and won the Nobel Prize—twice.

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, we look back at May 23, 1921, when the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania hosted a distinguished visitor – Marie Curie. Dean Martha Tracy (herself a WMC alumna, ...

The name of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, is famous around the world, and it once graced two Mayo Clinic-affiliated buildings that no longer exist. Curie was born Maria Sklodowska ...

A special CU Wizards show commemorating of the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Madame Curie. The show will take place in Old Main, CU Boulder's oldest building, October 28th beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Mme. Joliot-Curie, daughter of famed Physicist Marie Curie, is a distinguished nuclear physicist in her own right, a Nobel prizewinner and the wife of a Communist. Like her husband, Frederic, she is ...

With all the news about Monsieur Strauss-Kahn and the hotel maid in New York, plus Arnold Schwarzenegger's extra marital baby, I got to thinking about the not-so-subtle way women have been treated in ...