It was 100 years ago this month that Marie Curie won the first of two Nobel Prizes for physics, and then for chemistry.
Born in Poland, Marie Curie went on to study in France, where she met her husband, Pierre who shared her first Nobel win. In an age when science was virtually monopolized by men, Curie's work paved the way to understanding radioactivity and nuclear science.
As part of the centenary celebrations of Curie's Nobel Prize, the Pierre and Marie Curie Museum in Paris gathered some French teenagers together to take part in one of the physicist's lessons, first held in 1907. Catherine Guilyardi joined them as the experiments got underway.
