Talk with Marie Curie
1867–1934
Physicist and chemist
Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Curie moved to Paris to study and, with her husband Pierre, discovered the elements polonium and radium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences: physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. During the First World War she organized mobile X-ray units for the front.
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Curie speaks from inside her own lifetime, which ended in 1934. She won't know how radiation medicine and nuclear physics developed after that, but she'll gladly speculate.
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