Paní Curieová – Curieová Eve (2021)

A renowned biography of a woman whose name everyone knows, a woman with immense talent and passion for science, a woman with boundless will and diligence, who managed not only to penetrate a world previously reserved only for men but also to excel in it in an extraordinary way and bring significant scientific discoveries to the world. Marie Skłodowska was a patriotically minded Pole, but her desire for education led her to France, where at the age of twenty-four in 1891, she became the first woman to pass the entrance exams to the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry at the Sorbonne in Paris. After a few years, she met her future husband, physicist Pierre Curie. Together, they dedicated themselves to the research of radioactivity under very modest conditions. For the discovery of polonium and radium, she and her husband were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. After his tragic death in a traffic accident in 1906, she continued the work they had started, which brought her a second Nobel Prize in 1911. Until the end of her life, she engaged in intensive scientific research at the Radiological Institute, which she helped establish. The only exception was World War I, during which she built and operated an extensive system of mobile and stationary X-ray examination units for injured soldiers. The biography, whose...