Marie Curie, a science hero ... Back then, the long-term effects of radiation exposure were poorly understood. Curie and her ...

In 1903 Marie and Pierre seemed to be on the verge ... Members of the Curie labs often fought bouts of anemia—the result of radiation sickness. Curie herself struggled with it, and with ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural ... the dangers of radioactive materials weren’t yet fully understood, but radiation poisoning had already taken many lives.

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 ... caused by exposure to radioactivity). In ...

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people ... They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most important prize in the world ...

Then Curie came across a sample which gave off three hundred times as much radiation ... Marie Curie died in 1934 from leukaemia, almost certainly caused by her experiments and repeated exposure ...

In 1934, at age 66, Marie Curie died from aplastic anemia, which was likely caused by years of radiation exposure. She is remembered today as one of the most revolutionary female scientists ...