Marie Curie

We all think we know who Marie Sklodowska was. Also known as Marie Curie, she was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first female scientist to be universally recognized: her discovery of radioactivity was the start of a brilliant career that culminated in the addition of two new elements to the periodic table. . A tireless worker, Marie Curie lived apparently oblivious to the limitations imposed on women of her time. The reality, however, is that she was reviled and attacked: she was branded an impostor, an immigrant Jew, an adulteress, an exploited ... This exciting biography will make us discover with new eyes the life of an extraordinary scientist who, even today, continues to arouse immense fascination. The hidden story of Marie Curie, the mother of modern physics.