Episode 034 · Out Nov 7, 2026

Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive

Born 7 November 1867 in Warsaw as Maria Skłodowska. Women couldn't enrol at university, so she studied at the secret "Flying University". In Paris she discovered polonium (named for Poland) and radium, won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics – after first being left off – and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She is still the only person with Nobel Prizes in two sciences. The danger of radiation was not yet known; she died in 1934. Today her notebooks are kept at the French National Library and can only be consulted on special request.

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