Maggie Gyllenhaal Channels Madame Curie
Marie Curie is the sexiest story in science history. The Polish-French physicist and chemist may be as famous (alas) for her love life and tragic death as for her essential early studies of radioactivity, first with her husband Pierre, then on her own.  This year is the 100th anniversary of Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry; she was also the first woman to be awarded the Nobel, and the first person to …