The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905,
where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded
the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity and 1911, where she
receives her second Nobel Prize.
1906, Pierre Curie is run over by a horse-drawn carriage and tragically
dies on a Parisian street. Marie’s unique marriage and happiest lifetime is
destroyed in one go. Left alone with two young daughters, the widow has
responsibilities that would overwhelm the strongest man but she faces
her duties with greatest courage as a mother and a scientist. Despite her
sorrow, she continues the work that she began with Pierre, taking especially
the “Curie-therapy” they developed against cancer to great heights. But
science is primarily a man’s world and Marie’s audacity is not well seen by
everybody. As she embarks on a passionate affair with the mathematician
Paul Langevin, she provokes a huge scandal and the tabloids drag her
name through the mud. Alarmed by all the malevolent headlines, the
Swedish Nobel Academy, who wanted to award her a second Nobel Prize
(making her the first person ever to receive two), forbids her to drive to
Stockholm to fetch her award. Doesn’t a woman in love earn recognition
for her work?
Years later Marie founds the Curie Institute that changed the face of cancer
treatment and is today the most successful research center in France.
The fate of the Curie and Langevin families remained in the future
intertwined: two generations later the granddaughter of Marie, Hélène
Curie, and the grandson of Paul, Michel Langevin, both scientists, will fall
in love and marry.
Today Pierre, Marie and Paul rest in peace next to each other at the
Panthéon in Paris.
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