![]() ![]() While her work won her two Nobel prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society. ![]() Madame Curie's shrewd but controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be used to discover new elements. The myth of Marie Curie-the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer-has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie ![]()
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