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The secret history of scientist Marie Curie
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British actress Rosamund Pike plays double Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie in the biopic Radioactive.
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Alison de Souza In Toronto, Alison de Souza
Marie Curie was one of the greatest scientific minds of the last century, but, compared with the notable male scientists of her generation, the story of her life is rarely told.
A new film, Radioactive, sets out to change that. The historical drama, showing in cinemas here, explores the extraordinary life and work of the double Nobel Prize winner, who died at 66 in 1934 and made pioneering discoveries on radioactivity, a term she coined.
