She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. The first person to win two. A scientific genius who discovered radium and changed medicine forever. But in 1911, Marie Curie became the most hated woman in France — not for her science, but for falling in love with the wrong man.

In this episode:

- How a private love letter ended up on the front page of every French newspaper

- Why the Nobel Committee almost banned Marie from accepting her second Nobel Prize

- The widow, the physicist, and the scandal that nearly destroyed both their careers

- What Albert Einstein wrote to Marie during her darkest moment

**Words to know:**

Affair (noun) - A romantic relationship between two people when at least one of them is married to someone else *Example: The scandal started w ...