Marie Curie's Whole Life as a Pixel Art Speedrun

Marie Curie's whole life, played as a retro pixel-art lab game. She went from a secret school in Warsaw to a leaky shed in Paris, found two new elements and won two Nobel Prizes. Her lab notebooks are still radioactive. Every fact has a source (list below). Where historians disagree, or the legend got polished, the video says so. CHAPTERS 0:00 World 1: Warsaw, the Flying University and the sister pact 1:09 World 2: Paris, the Sorbonne and meeting Pierre Curie 2:15 World 3: Uranium rays and the science of radioactivity 3:19 World 4: How the Curies discovered polonium and radium 4:22 World 5: Tons of pitchblende for 0.1 gram of radium salt 5:41 World 6: The 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics 6:46 World 7: Pierre Curie's death and the Sorbonne 7:28 World 8: The 1911 scandal and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 9:02 World 9: Marie Curie's X-ray cars in the First World War 10:14 World 10: A gram of radium from America 11:20 World 11: Her death, curium and the radioactive notebooks 12:47 Final: Marie Curie's tech tree, run complete SOURCES NobelPrize.org: Marie Curie, Biographical (Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, 1967): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy... Pasachoff, N. (2000). Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity. AIP Center for History of Physics, web exhibit: https://history.aip.org/exhibits/curie/ Froman, N. (1996). Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium. NobelPrize.org: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/the... Musee Curie: Le polonium, de sa decouverte a sa production: https://musee.curie.fr/blog/le-poloni... Musee Curie: Biographie de Marie Curie: https://musee.curie.fr/decouvrir/la-f... NobelPrize.org: Irene Joliot-Curie, facts: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/che... NobelPrize.org: Pierre Curie, facts: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy... Curie, M. (1904). Radium and Radioactivity. Century Magazine, January 1904 (AIP reprint): https://history.aip.org/exhibits/curi... BnF: Les cahiers de Marie Curie conserves a la BnF sont-ils radioactifs?: https://www.bnf.fr/fr/les-cahiers-de-... Los Alamos National Laboratory, Periodic Table: Polonium: https://periodic.lanl.gov/84.shtml AIP web exhibit: Marie Curie and her legend: https://history.aip.org/exhibits/curi... Curie, M. (1911). Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry, Nobel Lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/che... Curie, M. (1902). Sur le poids atomique du radium. Comptes rendus 135, 161-163: https://archive.org/details/comptes-r... NobelPrize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, summary: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy... NobelPrize.org: Nobel Prize awarded women, 1901-2025: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lis... NobelPrize.org: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911, summary: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/che... NobelPrize.org: Marie Curie, facts (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/che... Los Alamos National Laboratory, Periodic Table: Radium: https://periodic.lanl.gov/88.shtml Pigeard-Micault, N. Musee Curie: Marie Curie, la Guerre et la radiologie: https://musee.curie.fr/blog/marie-cur... Musee Curie: Marie Curie a-t-elle invente les voitures radiologiques petites Curie?: https://musee.curie.fr/blog/marie-cur... Musee Curie: Le voyage de Marie Curie aux Etats-Unis: https://musee.curie.fr/blog/le-voyage... BnF Chroniques: Un heritage qui rayonne. Les carnets de Marie Curie: https://www.bnf.fr/fr/un-heritage-qui... NobelPrize.org: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935, summary: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/che... NobelPrize.org: Nobel Prize facts (multiple laureates, family laureates): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/fac... Los Alamos National Laboratory, Periodic Table: Curium: https://periodic.lanl.gov/96.shtml Gallica, BnF: Pierre et Marie Curie, Carnet de la decouverte 3, Uranium III - Polonium (1898-1902): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv... Nobel Foundation (2026). The 2026 Nobel Prize announcements, press release, 2 February 2026: https://www.nobelprize.org/press-rele... Which topic should we speedrun next? Tell us in the comments. #mariecurie #nobelprize #science #history #pixelart #speedrun