A health librarian at the cinema - Radioactive

Not at the cinema, really, but a DVD, but it was a feature film.The film is about the life and work of Marie Curie, and her work with Pierre Curie.Marie and Pierre, and Henri Becquerel, were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903.  The film has Pierre reporting that the Nobel Committee did not name Marie on the award.  And that Pierre told them that if they did not name her, he would not accept the award.  I don ' t know if those things were so.  The film does have a scene where Pierre comes back from Stockholm, having accepted the award, and it is clear that Marie has not attended.  Rockwell (1) suggests that actually, they both went to Stockholm, but not till 1905, as neither were in good health, and they were not able to travel to accept their award (p.175).It tries to show the implications of their discoveries by leaping forward in time to a use of radiation as therapy in 1950s America (I am not sure why then and there specifically), to a test of an atomic bomb, to Hiroshima and to Chernobyl.  While important to see how their discoveries were used, I was not sure about these leaps, as I thought they implied that the Curies were aware of these implications of their work.  Did the Curies see the possible therapeutic effects of radiation?  Certainly Pierre and Henri Becquerel studied the effect of radioactive substances on the body, Pierre putting radioactive substance on his skin and observing what happened (2)....
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