 Radioactive
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Lauren Redniss
                    
        
            Radioactive
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Lauren Redniss
        
        
                
                            
        
        
        
                    
                ISBN: 9780061351327
            
        
                    
                Publication Date: 2010-12-21
            
        
                
                            
                In 1891, 24-year-old Marie Sklodowska moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize.