While her work won her two Nobel prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society.
Marie Curie's shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be used to discover new elements. "The myth of Marie Curie- the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer- has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. Goldsmith, Barbara (Curie, Marie) Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
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