Pierre y marie curie biography video

CHRIS PACKHAM: Aboard a train bound for Paris sits a woman. Such was her passion for science, that when she learnt Poland’s universities didn’t accept women, she travelled across Europe to study at the Sorbonne.

Nobody could have guessed that this immigrant, with barely a penny to her name, would go on to demolish some of science’s most firmly held beliefs… But Marie Sklodowska Curie was no ordinary person.

She didn’t seek out fame and prizes, choosing instead to focus her research on an area largely ignored by her male counterparts: radioactivity.

Curie was studying rocks containing uranium, a magical element that literally glowed in the dark.

For years, it was the only known radioactive material.

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Then Curie came across a sample which gave off three hundred times as much radiation as the rest. She suspected the presence of an even more powerful element.

MARIE-NOELLE HIMBERT: Here, Po, Polonium is the first element that they discovered.

CHRIS PACKHAM: It’s remarkable, isn’t it? The Scientific Genius of Marie Curie – Curiosity University HIL