As well as the fuss over her second Nobel Prize (she wins the second for discovering radium and polonium ... The subtitle of the book is How The Glow Of Radium Lit A Path For Women In Science.

But the application of radium that would bring it notoriety was its use in glow-in-the-dark paint. Frequently used to provide ... the Curies identified two new elements in the remaining material - ...

Curie was studying rocks containing uranium, a magical element that literally glowed in the dark. For years ... how Marie Curie’s discovery of polonium and radium changed atomic theory and ...