100 Years Ago: Marie Curie Wins 2nd Nobel Prize

From Scientific American , November 25, 1911, Volume 105 FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie was defeated by two votes. At a joint meeting of the five academies which compose the Institut de France, a majority had opposed the admission of women, as contrary to tradition, but each academy was left to decide the question for itself. [More]

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100 Years Ago: Marie Curie Wins 2nd Nobel Prize