From notebooks to furniture: Why everything Marie Curie and her husband touched has so far been kept in lead-lined boxes
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July 18, 2026
Marie Curie and her husband spent nearly four years boiling seven tons of pitchblende in a leaky, airless shed in Paris to isolate a tenth of a gram of radium chloride. Today, the notebooks they kept between 1899 and 1902 remain in lead boxes at the…
Marie Curie’s quote of the day: “There are sadistic scientists who are more eager to pursue error than to establish truth.” |
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April 30, 2026
Marie Curie’s daily quote (Image source: Wikipedia) It is often said that science is the disciplined search for truth based on evidence, observation and reasoning. But the way people think and act during scientific discovery also affects the…
Marie Curie’s quote of the day: “Life is not easy for any of us. But so what? We must have perseverance and, above all, faith in ourselves. We must believe that we have the talent to do something, and we must achieve it.” |
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February 12, 2026
Marie Curie (Image source: Wikipedia) Marie Curie was a scientist whose research changed the way people thought about radioactivity and made possible new discoveries in chemistry and physics. Born in Poland in 1867, she moved to France to attend…