Love in the lab

Rosamund Pike plays ground-breaking scientist Marie Curie in a revealing new biopic about her life and work

- HANNAH DAVIES, JUDY EWENS, SEAN MARLAND

The life and work of one of the most remarkable scientists in history is explored this week when Rosamund Pike portrays Marie Curie in Amazon Prime Video’s film Radioactive.

It follows the Polish-French chemist and physicist from the 1870s onwards and chronicles her scientific breakthroughs, personal relationships and her struggle to make her voice heard in a man’s world.

Marie and her husband Pierre (Sam Riley) changed the face of the 20th century, and she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radioactivity – only for Marie to eventually die from her exposure to radiation during her many years of research.