The new film dives into many lesser-known aspects of the Curies' lives, like their interest in the occult, and Marie's headline-grabbing affair.

Pierre Curie died in 1906. The scientist was run over by a horse-drawn carriage in Paris. Marie was crushed by the loss, and the passages she wrote in her diary at the time are a testament to her ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

The physicists-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard-won “fairy lights,” which, the two believed, held ...

The story’s depiction of Curie has particularly modern resonances as well. Throughout the film she can be brash, confident and headstrong, such as when she tells Pierre Curie that his mind is ...

Marie Curie stands in her laboratory in 1912. | Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain Though he had been ill for some time due to what we now understand was radiation poisoning, Pierre’s death at ...

When she and Pierre Curie [her husband and partner] discovered radium, it glowed and seemed so enchanting and romantic; people wanted it in face creams and chocolate and cigarettes, ...

RILEY: (As Pierre Curie) Radioactive matches for your radioactive cigarettes, radioactive chocolate, radioactive toothpaste. There's a letter in here about radioactive beauty powder.

Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate.

Watch Deadline's video review of Amazon's biopic 'Radioactive,' in which Rosamund Pike is luminous as two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie.

Pierre and Marie Curie saw Fuller dance and were greatly impressed. The admiration was mutual: Fuller was so captivated by the Curies' radium experiments that she wrote to them in 1905, asking ...