Discovery of Radium
“A wooden lab shed, Paris, December 21, 1898. The Curies isolate a faintly glowing speck of radium chloride. Foreground shows Marie writing in a notebook by candlelight while Pierre holds the test tube; midground reveals the slag heap of pitchblende residue and the crude electrometer; the small space breathes coal smoke and brilliant discovery on a freezing Paris night.”
