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Great Lives: Marie Curie

Marie Curie 

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Pallab Ghosh explains how Marie Curie achieved fame through her work on radioactivity.

Journalist Pallab Ghosh chooses the double Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Marie Curie. With Matthew Parris. From April 2007.

BBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh chooses the double Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Marie Curie

Pallab explains how Marie achieved iconic status through her work on radioactivity.

She also weighs up the cost she paid for her success. 

Presenter Matthew Parris is also joined in the studio by Curie biographer Sarah Dry.

Producer: John Byrne

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2007.

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