🎧 Marie Curie
🎧 Patented: History of Inventions • 37m
In a leaky shed in Paris, Marie Curie turned two tons of pitchblende (aka special rocks) into a single test tube of radium chloride - its green glow lighting up the walls. It must have been a magic...if radioactive!...moment.
Today on Patented we talk with Patricia Fara about Marie Curie. A giant in the history of science but a woman whose story has been twisted and mistold over the years.
Edited and Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long
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