At least two one-woman dramas have been devoted to Curie’s life and work: Susan Marie Frontczak’s Manya: A Living History of Marie Curie (available as a two-hour program intended for adults or a one-hour program for grades 4 through 12) and the PG-rated Rogue Scientist by Gabriel and Rebecca Morales. The graves of Marie and Pierre Curie in the Panthéon, Paris.Īlong with a number of biographies dedicated to Curie the 21st century has produced several histories of the science of radioactivity, with insights into Curie herself an interesting collective biography of Curie’s nuclear family by a biographer of Einstein and an intriguing artist’s book (a National Book Award finalist) about the marriage of Pierre and Marie Curie and the unforeseen and unintended negative consequences of their work.Įntertainments on screen and stage included Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, written by actor Alan Alda, which dramatizes her depression following Pierre’s death in 1906 and her reaction to the press scandal over her later affair with Paul Langevin. Her life story continues to spark controversies that bear on contemporary issues.

France has claimed her not only as an iconic female scientist, reinterring her with France’s immortals in the Panthéon, but also as a model immigrant, with a permanent exhibit in her honor in a Center for the History of Immigration in Paris.

Recent decades have seen new popular and scholarly books and articles about Curie and several plays and movies based on her life. A Second Generation of Curies (1935-1958)Ī public that scarcely bothers to learn the names and achievements of contemporary scientists continues to feed on Marie Curie’s enduring fame.

Recognition and Disappointment (1903-1905).

Marie Curie - The Radium Institute (1919-1934)

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