Marie Curie: Great Minds

Hank tells us the story of his favorite genius lady scientist and radioactive superhero, Marie Curie.

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[Inerdgirl511]

marie curie invented the theory of radioactivity, treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity

[carlyfriesen]

I'm going to see the Marie Curie Museum in Paris this weekend! Had to brush up on my knowledge, so I watched this again!

[Bob Bo]

ummmm he has.....

[infxmhc]

gotta thumb this up. Such a funny and informative video.

[pyroawsome]

They did....

[Mike Chu]

NIKOLA TESLA!! Do a show on him please?

[Juan Pablo Durán]

Already done

[superserchmx]

Talk about Carl Sagan!!! The greatest scientist that modern history has ever had!

[7ropz]

two words: NIKOLA TESLA

[James Gan]

An episode on Carl Sagan would be nice after all he introduced the cosmos to a crap load of people

[David Douglass]

I would argue that Pierre was killed by radiation. Yes, it wasn't the thing that landed the death blow, but he was so sick with radiation poisoning at the time that he was too frail to get away from the carriage that killed him.

[yvonneennovy]

Leonhard Euler