The Elements of Marie Curie with Dava Sobel

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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How did Marie Curie’s discoveries in radioactivity change our understanding of the natural world? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice sit down with science writer Dava Sobel, author of a new book on Curie, to explore the enduring impact of her work on radioactivity.

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0:00.0	So Chuck, I love having guests come back.
0:02.5	Why, is it so rare?
0:03.7	No, no.
0:04.9	It's so rarely happens.
0:06.3	They run away and never return.
0:08.2	No, no, no.
0:08.8	It's Davis Sobel.
0:10.3	Yeah.
0:10.4	It is a fixture on the landscape of science writing and has gone places that others haven't,
0:17.5	or ever even thought to go.
0:18.6	Well, she took us there, so it was just tremendous.
0:21.7	Just tremendous, especially since she was our first ever guest.
0:25.2	Wow.
0:25.7	Season 1, episode 1 of StarTalk, a bajillion years ago.
0:29.5	Coming up, Davis Obel.
0:33.5	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:36.1	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:42.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:47.0	This is StarTalk.
0:49.3	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:52.2	Got Chuck Nice with me, Chuckie, baby.
0:53.6	Hey, Neil.
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