Film

The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World

Name: The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2013-05-03

2013 · 1h · Documentary · History

IMDb: 7.5

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Overview

Over 80 years after her death, Maria Skłodowska-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. This multi-layered film reveals the real Maria Skłodowska-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.