Marie Curie native country. Curie's second Nobel Prize enabled her to persuade the French government into supporting the Radium Institute, built in 1914, where research was conducted in chemistry, physics, and medicine. A month after accepting her 1911 Nobel Prize, she was hospitalised with depression and a kidney ailment. For most of 1912 she avoided public life but did spend time in England with her friend and fellow physicist, Hertha Ayrton. She returned to her laboratory only in December, after a break of about 14 months. In 1912, the Warsaw Scientific Society offered her the directorship of a new laboratory in Warsaw
Marie Curie of biographies are devoted to her. In 1938 her daughter, Ève Curie, published "Madame Curie". In 1987 Françoise Giroud wrote "Marie Curie: A Life". In 2005 Barbara Goldsmith wrote "Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie". In 2011 Lauren Redniss published "Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout". Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon starred in the 1943 U.S. Oscar-nominated film, "Madame Curie", based on her life. More recently, in 1997, a French film about Pierre and Marie Curie was released, "Les Palmes de M. Schutz". It was adapted from a play of the same name.