Series 3 Episode 3 - Marie Curie

In this episode Kennardley speaks with Marie Curie about her extraordinary life and achievements. While combatting endemic sexual discrimination and prejudice, she became the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the first person, male or female to win two Nobel prizes in two different fields, Physics and Chemistry.

References

https://history.aip.org/exhibits/curie/trag1.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/biographical/

https://daily.jstor.org/marie-curie-and-polish-resistance/

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