BBC Documentaries
The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World
TV-PG
2013 • E88 May 2, 2013 60mPolish physicist and chemist Marie Curie became a celebrity during her lifetime, attracting media attention for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. This docu-drama looks at the woman behind the science, revealing a tenacious mother who had to survive the pain of the loss of husband and collaborator Pierre and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair, but who also discovered two elements and coined the term radioactivity.