Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie was canceled due to a secret love

She had everything against her becoming a world-famous scientist: she was poor, an immigrant and lived at a time when women hardly had access to university. Yet Marie Curie conducted groundbreaking research into radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes. Why was it canceled by half of France?

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Host:
Gemma Venhuizen
Guests:
Margriet van der Heijden and Laura Wismans
Editing and editing:
Rose of Toledo
Photo:
Universal History Archive/Getty Images




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