Marie Curie: How Her Genius Killed Her

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0:27 Adrian Grycuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 PL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en via Wikimedia Commons
2:16 Statue of Curie: Nihil novi, CC SA 1.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/ via Wikimedia Commons
2:41 Sorbonne University photos courtesy of Ludwig Favre www.ludwigfavre.com
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4:38 Electrometer photo: Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Pitchblende photo: Jędrzej Pełka, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
5:02 Pierre and Marie Curie at work in their laboratory. Wellcome Collection.
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5:25 The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: exterior courtyard where treatment of noxious gases took place. Photograph, ca. 1900. Wellcome Collection. Public domain.
5:28 Shed where ore experiments took place, Marie Curie. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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7:10 Portrait of Marie Curie, and her two daughters, Eve and Irene, in 1908. Wellcome Library, London. CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
8:20 Cambridge university photographer, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en via Wikimedia Commons
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12:12 Portrait of Marie Curie and her daughter Irene. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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