Featured Author Talk and Signing

Very shortly after Marie Curie became a world famous, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist, she also became a 38-year-old widow with two small children. Against all odds and several traditions, she managed to take over the lab where she had worked alongside her husband. She also assumed his teaching position, making her the first woman ever to lecture at the Sorbonne. In her unique role as laboratory director and professor, she could not help but inspire scores of other women who aspired to a life in science, and attract them to her lab. Men, too, came from as far away as India, China and Japan to work at the world famous Radium Institute that the Polish-born Mme. Curie—scientist, mentor, mother, war hero, humanitarian — created in Paris.