Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barrier...

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Polonium for Poland and Radium for the rays. Marie Curie was a Pole and scientist through and through. But as a woman in the early 20th century, her contributions in discovering two elements nearly went unknown. Support the show: https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/hindsight/ 

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize--and she didn’t only win one, she won two. Carter and Vanessa discuss Marie’s inspirations in naming the elements she discovered: polonium and radium, and how she fought sexism throughout her life, paving the way for women in s ...  Show more

¿Sabías quién es Marie Curie? Fue una científica polaca nacionalizada francesa. Fue pionera en el campo de la radiactividad y fue la primera persona en recibir dos premios Nobel en distintas especialidades: Física y Química. También fue la primera mujer en ocupar el puesto de pro ...  Show more

Marie was the first woman in France to earn a PhD in physics. The professors who reviewed her doctoral thesis, declared it “the greatest single contribution to science ever written." What kinds of contributions did she make to the understanding of science as we know it today? Tun ...  Show more