To be a woman in 1891 and studying physics and maths was exceptional; to be a poor woman from Poland who moved to Paris to do so was even more extraordinary. Marie Curie’s life was inspirational, not only because of the huge contribution she made to science, and our battle against cancer in particular, but because of the energy, determination and passion that she brought to everything she did. We at TM revere her as much for her well-known scientific achievements, of discovering radium and polonium, as her work near the front in World War I helping wounded soldiers with the use of small, mobile x-ray machines that she’d developed. The spirit that Marie Curie showed throughout her life is, for us, as much her legacy as her two Nobel Prizes.
