Synopsis
"Pioneer - Rebel - Genius | Don't miss Rosamund Pike in the incredible, true-story of Marie Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world." [Amazon Prime Video] "The film documents the life and work of Marie Sklodowska-Curie: meeting her husband/research partner Pierre (Sam Riley), discovering polonium and radium, the tragic loss of Pierre to a trampling horse, and her affair with colleague Paul Langevin (Aneurin Barnard). Scenes of her life are interwoven with scenes depicting the future impact of her discoveries, including brachytherapy, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Manhattan Project, and the Chernobyl disaster." [Wikipedia: Radioactive (film)] "Marie Sklodowska Curie (... 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. . . . She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris . . ." [Wikipedia: Marie Curie]