Which details from the historical fiction piece "marie curie and the discovery of radioactivity" supports marie's factual statement? during a particularly rigorous winter, it was not unusual for the water to freeze in the basin in the night; to be able to sleep i was obliged to pile all my clothes on the bedcovers. in the same room i prepared my meals with the aid of an alcohol lamp and a few kitchen utensils. these meals were often reduced to bread with a cup of chocolate, eggs or fruit.

a moment later, people passing by the school of physics and chemistry were treated to a sight not often seen on the fashionable streets of paris in the early 1900s: a bareheaded young woman in a laboratory smock, ripping eagerly into the pile of heavy sacks and burying her hands in . . dirt?

when marie arrived in paris in 1891, she studied physics at the greatest university in europe, the sorbonne. but how poor she was!

when she was growing up in russian-occupied poland, even to study science was forbidden.

no one, the curies included, had ever seen this element. still, the husband-and-wife team had given it a name: radium.