July 28, 2020

Curie Notebooks

I watched Radioactive. It’s flawed—we have to watch Marie Curie apparently predict (or at least be blamed for nuclear weapons, atomic weapons, and the Chernobyl disaster) but not too bad: Rosamund Pike is very good and they do show Curie working with her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie. Though the dynasty is cut off there: in real life Helene and Pierre (Marie and Pierre’s grandchildren) are both scientists as is Helene’s son, Yves Langevin. Read more

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