Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)
Image from 1920
[English version video removed from BBC and YouTube due to copyright claims]
[Description]
Nearly 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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s954d
The Genius of Marie Curie - The Woman Who Lit Up the World
WGBX-TV
PBS Boston, MA
May 28, 2015
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[From article]
Initially, she was buried at a modest cemetery in Sceaux, a Parisian suburb. In 1995, she was exhumed and became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
First, however, her body had to be tested for traces of radiation. One of the revelations in the superb documentary was that she was unlikely to have died of radiation poisoning, as folklore would have one believe. A radiology expert interviewed by the programme recalled that when he tested her remains by “rubbing the forehead and pelvis of Marie Curie with blotting paper”, he found that the levels were low. He speculates that Curie in fact died of X-Ray poisoning sustained during her service in mobile X-Ray units in the Great War (which, incidentally, were her idea).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10036675/The-Genius-of-Marie-Curie-the-Woman-Who-Lit-Up-the-World-BBC-Two-review.html
The Genius of Marie Curie - the Woman Who Lit Up the World, BBC Two, review
Jake Wallis Simons is entranced by this highly informative documentary on one our greatest scientists.
By Jake Wallis Simons
10:02PM BST 03 May 2013
May 28, 2015
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[From article]
Initially, she was buried at a modest cemetery in Sceaux, a Parisian suburb. In 1995, she was exhumed and became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
First, however, her body had to be tested for traces of radiation. One of the revelations in the superb documentary was that she was unlikely to have died of radiation poisoning, as folklore would have one believe. A radiology expert interviewed by the programme recalled that when he tested her remains by “rubbing the forehead and pelvis of Marie Curie with blotting paper”, he found that the levels were low. He speculates that Curie in fact died of X-Ray poisoning sustained during her service in mobile X-Ray units in the Great War (which, incidentally, were her idea).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10036675/The-Genius-of-Marie-Curie-the-Woman-Who-Lit-Up-the-World-BBC-Two-review.html
The Genius of Marie Curie - the Woman Who Lit Up the World, BBC Two, review
Jake Wallis Simons is entranced by this highly informative documentary on one our greatest scientists.
By Jake Wallis Simons
10:02PM BST 03 May 2013
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