The Genius of Marie Curie - The Woman Who Lit up the World
Multi-layered documentary revealing the human story of Marie Curie, whose pioneering research on radioactivity made her the world's most famous female scientist.
Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. They were fascinated because she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and is still the only person to have won two Nobels in two different sciences. But while the bare bones of her scientific life, the obstacles she had to overcome, the years of painstaking research and the penalty she ultimately paid for her discovery of radium have become one of the iconic stories of scientific heroism, there is another side to Marie Curie - her human story.
This multi-layered film reveals the real Marie Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.
Last on
Great Lives: Marie Curie
Pallab Ghosh explains how Marie Curie achieved fame through her work on radioactivity.
Clips
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Introduction to The Genius of Marie Curie
Duration: 02:06
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Marie Curie on Broadway
Duration: 01:01
Music Played
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The National
England
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The National
Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
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Django Reinhardt
Echos De France
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Gideon Bradshaw |
Director | Gideon Bradshaw |
Presenter | David Malone |
Presenter | Geraldine James |
Executive Producer | Marcus Herbert |
Executive Producer | Jonathan Renouf |
Participant | Julie Des Jardins |
Participant | Patricia Fara |
Participant | Malgorzata Sobieszczak-Marciniak |
Participant | Renaud Huynh |
Participant | Andrea Sella |
Participant | Helene Langevin-Joliot |
Participant | Helena Pycior |
Participant | Jean-Luc Pasquier |
Participant | Tereza Kaczorowska |
Broadcasts
- Fri 3 May 2013 21:00大象传媒 Two except Northern Ireland & Wales
- Sat 4 May 2013 22:40大象传媒 Two Northern Ireland & Wales only
- Mon 13 May 2013 23:20大象传媒 Two except Northern Ireland
- Sun 19 May 2013 23:00大象传媒 Two Northern Ireland
- Tue 18 Aug 2015 22:00
- Thu 20 Aug 2015 02:00
- Mon 16 May 2016 23:00
- Tue 17 May 2016 03:00
- Mon 18 Dec 2017 00:00
- Thu 21 Jun 2018 21:00
- Fri 2 Aug 2019 01:30
- Sun 7 Mar 2021 23:45