1 | It was Madame Curie who discovered the element radium. | |
2 | It happens to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | |
3 | No such official recognition came to Curie. Perhaps her role in the Langevin affair was not yet forgiven. | |
4 | Five years earlier, in 1906, Madame Curie' s husband was run over and killed by a horse drawn carriage near the Pont Neuf in Paris. | |
5 | I read about it in Lauren Redniss' excellent new book Radioactive - a picture book/narrative that describes the chemist Marie Curie's life. |