Paris, 1903. This is Marie. She’s thirty-six years old. And her hands glow in the dark. Marie Curie just became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She discovered radium and polonium—elements that changed science forever. She did it in a freezing shed with a dirt floor. No funding. No laboratory. The University of Paris wouldn’t give a woman proper facilities. The work: ∙ Processed tons of pitchblende ore by hand ∙ Stirred boiling vats for hours ∙ Isolated radioactive elements one gram at a time ∙ Her hands were burned and scarred ∙ They glowed green at night from radiation She didn’t know it was killing her. The radiation destroyed her bone marrow. Her blood cells. Her organs. Slowly. Over decades. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911—the first person ever to win twice. She revolutionized medicine: ∙ Cancer treatment ∙ X-rays ∙ Saved millions of lives And it killed her. In 1934, age sixty-six. Aplastic anemia from radiation exposure. Her notebooks are still radioactive. They...