![]() Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win it twice and the only person to win it in two different fields. The threat of nuclear warfare and nuclear meltdowns, the advances in treating cancer and the invention of the X-ray machine: It's all become such a ubiquitous part of modern life that it's important to remember the discovery itself came from a Polish woman living in France at the turn of the century, a wife and mother who battered the elements into submission seeking to understand how they worked. ![]() Radioactive: the discovery, the concept, the word defined culture in the 20th century, in the realms of science, medicine and war, and in our own existential dread and pop fantasies. ![]()
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