Già assegnataria di un premio Nobel e genio della fisica e della chimica, la leggendaria Marie Curie ha appena perso il marito Pierre. Rimasta da sola a crescere due figlie piccole, Marie si ritrova a lottare per affermarsi nell'ambiente accademico maschilista di Francia e per vivere la sua passione poco convenzionale con il matematico Paul Langevin, suscitando uno scandalo che mette a rischio i suoi futuri riconoscimenti.

Albert Einstein è il figlio di un coltivatore di mele della Tasmania, che scopre il segreto della scissione dell'atomo della birra per rimettere le bollicine nella birra. Quando Albert si reca a Sydney per brevettare la sua invenzione, incontra la bella scienziata francese Marie Curie, oltre a diversi tipi senza scrupoli che cercano di trarre vantaggio dal genio ingenuo e dalla sua invenzione.

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.

Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Marie Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.

Marie Curie (November 17, 1867-July 4, 1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. A pioneer in the study of radioactivity, Madame Curie ventured to discover the "X" in X-rays. In addition to being the first female professor at the Sorbonne, Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize for discovering the elements radium and polonium and was the first two-time Nobel laureate. Teach passionate resolve, determination, and how to overcome challenges with this 30-minute animated educational DVD about Marie Curie. Source: Nest Family Learning