Description
In this episode we review the lives and achievements of two towering figures in the world of 19th century science. Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) pioneered work in radioactivity, discovered two new elements and is the only winner of two Nobel prizes in different sciences. Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907) is the Russian chemist who proposed the Periodic Law and the Periodic Table of the Elements.