The Genius of Marie Curie The Woman Who Lit up the World

Over 80 years after her death Marie Curie remains by far the bestknown female scientist In her lifetime she became that rare thing a celebrity scientist attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip This multilayered film reveals the real Marie Curie an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times had to survive the pain of loss and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics which she discovered and named radioactivity