Madame Curie (Madame Curie)

The film begins in the 1890s while Marie Sklodowska is enrolled at the Sorbonne. She's a poor Polish exchange student with a passion for physics and chemistry. When he finds out about her precarious financial situation, a professor recommends her for a position with the "nervous and impatient" Dr. Pierre Curie and his assistant David. Curie believes that "women and science are incompatible." Marie, who will graduate at the top of her class, quickly proves him wrong. Just as quickly, he falls in love with her and introduces her to his parents. An engagement leads to a wedding, which leads to a partnership, which leads to the discovery of radium. Tragedy will eventually divide the couple, but Marie refuses to let their work die.

Maria (Marie in France) Skłodowska-Curie (born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867) was one of the first woman scientists to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. She had degrees in mathematics and physics. Winner of two Nobel Prizes: in 1903, she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics; in 1911 (100 years ago), she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize (this time in Chemistry) for her discovery and isolation of pure radium and radium components. She was the first person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes. She was the first mother-Nobel Prize Laureate of daughter-Nobel Prize Laureate. Her oldest daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1935). Maria discovered polonium (so called in honor of Poland) in the summer of 1898, and radium a few months later.