Marie Curie: A pioneering life
The extraordinary life of the Polish scientist who changed the course of physics.
The Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, and the first person to be awarded twice in two different fields. Her discoveries in the field of radioactivity 鈥� adding polonium and radium to the table of elements 鈥� changed the course of scientific history and led to huge advances in the treatment of cancer.
Quentin Cooper traces Marie Curie鈥檚 extraordinary life story with Patricia Fara, president of the British Society for the History of Science; Maciej Dunajski, mathematician and theoretical physicist at Cambridge University; and Susan Quinn, author of Marie Curie: A Life.
(Photo: Marie Curie. Credit: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images)
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