1．Growing up in Poland 1
2．The first years in Paris 3
3．The start of a family 6
4．New discoveries in science 7
5．Marie's first experiments 11
6．Two new elements 14
7．Mountains of pitchblende 16
8．Four years in a shed 19
9．Partners 22
10．Marie is famous 24
11．Exploring the atom 27
12．Made ill by radium 30
13．Death of Marie's partner 32
14．Marie continues alone 35
15．Scientists around the world 37
16．Marie's war work 39
17．Radium costs money 42
18．Radium costs lives 44
19．Killed by radium 48
20．Marie's legacy 51
21．The uses of radioactivity 54