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 ...

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925 ... “It seems to me that I wouldn’t prefer the idea of reading a paper by [Ernest] Rutherford, to getting what my body needs and looking after such an agreeable ...

Marie Curie is a name that is now known worldwide ... were beginning to take note of her extraordinary work, including Ernest Rutherford and Lord Kelvin, the French Academy of Sciences did not ...

In 1903, Marie Curie (November 7 ... including Einstein, Max Planck, and Ernest Rutherford. While the conference was a scientific triumph, with discussions shaping the future of quantum mechanics ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural ... and published an article outlining their findings. Physicist Ernest Rutherford, whose gold foil experiments changed our understanding of ...

Nobody could have guessed that this immigrant, with barely a penny to her name, would go on to demolish some of science’s most firmly held beliefs… But Marie Sklodowska Curie was no ordinary ...

Her thesis implicitly challenged existing theories of matter and opened the door to atomic models that would later be developed by Rutherford, Bohr, and others. Marie Curie’s thesis was received ...