Did you know Einstein's relativity theory was rejected? That prize medals get auctioned off for millions? Or that prized discoveries were later retracted? These Nobel facts will amaze you.1. The Nobel ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

Marie and Pierre in the lab, c. 1904. Source: Unknown author/Wikimedia Commons Marie Curie is one of the greatest scientists in history—the first woman to be appointed a professor at the University of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and ...

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In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married ...