Madame Curie's Notebooks: The Woman Who Named Radioactivity for Teens

In a library in Paris, there are notebooks you cannot open without signing a waiver first. They belonged to a woman who spent four years boiling several tons of rock in a shed the university had condemned, and who ended up with enough of a new element to fit in an eggcup.She was born in a country that had been erased from the map. Her university wouldn't admit women, so she studied in an illegal n...