Marie Curie in Her Lab
“A wooden shed at the École de Physique, Paris, 1898. Marie Curie pours pitchblende slurry into a basin as Pierre adjusts a balance. Foreground shows her hands black with mineral residue and a flask of radium chloride beginning to glow faintly; midground reveals a coal stove and chalkboard covered in equations; rain streaks the small windows of the cluttered, freezing improvised laboratory.”
