We learn, for example, that "only the great [Ernest] Rutherford knew how to deal with Marie, because he was not awed by her— he liked her." He also is quoted as saying "Madame Curie is a hard person ...

The physicists-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard ... that Brooks “would either put her husband before her students, thereby compromising her classes, or she would ...

Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw November ... in radioactivity which she made in collaboration with her husband, Mme. Curie has published a great many independent papers, and a volume ...

Polonium, (element 84), was discovered in 1898 and named after Poland, the homeland of Marie Curie (Ne Sklodowska) who found it with her husband Pierre Curie. This loyalty was a direct affront to ...