Marie and Irène Curie, two brilliant women who pioneered the development of nuclear chemistry, radiotherapy, and radiobiology

OBJECTIVE: To describe the contributions of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her daughter Irene Curie to radiation science and how these studies in physics, chemistry and medicine led to the need to study radiobiological effects. CONCLUSIONS: The seminal discoveries of Maria Sklodowska-Curie in radiation physics and chemistry provided the basis for later investigations of the effects of ionizing radiation on cells and tissues and the role of …