Madame Curie

She loved the illustration on the front cover, in which Madame Curie wore a plain dress, soft grey-green.

Radium Carol Reid 2012

Swanson's research into the life of Madame Curie, and the radium dial tragedy, inspired the poem "Radium Girls."

Watch's Deadly Glow Recalls Worker Tragedy, Triumph 2011

Especially appealing are the ones inspired by Madame Curie, two-time Nobel prize winner who discovered radium and polonium and coined the term "radioactivity."

Edward Goldman: Hollywood: Art and Oscars Edward Goldman 2011

On Wednesday in the everlasting week before the final week of school, Meryl's fifth-grade teacher handed her a Tab Scholastic edition of The Story of Madame Curie.

Radium Carol Reid 2012

Her hair was flat and wispy, as if she'd been working long hours, and in one hand she held a flask up to the light; the smudged rendition of Madame Curie's features showed a fierce determination.

Radium Carol Reid 2012

Especially appealing are the ones inspired by Madame Curie, two-time Nobel prize winner who discovered radium and polonium and coined the term "radioactivity."

Edward Goldman: Hollywood: Art and Oscars Edward Goldman 2011

Especially appealing are the ones inspired by Madame Curie, two-time Nobel prize winner who discovered radium and polonium and coined the term "radioactivity."

Edward Goldman: Hollywood: Art and Oscars Edward Goldman 2011

Especially appealing are the ones inspired by Madame Curie, two-time Nobel prize winner who discovered radium and polonium and coined the term "radioactivity."

Edward Goldman: Hollywood: Art and Oscars Edward Goldman 2011

This was the kind of thinking that underlay the inspirational movies produced by Warner Brothers in the 1930s for which Variety coined the term "biopic" – films about medical pioneers, democratic revolutionaries and other movers and shakers who changed the world, invariably men MGM's Madame Curie was a rare exception.

The Iron Lady – review 2012

She stared at the flickering images on the TV screen and thought of Madame Curie and her husband Pierre side by side in their laboratory, surrounded by invisible arcs of energy from the ores they studied.

Radium Carol Reid 2012