This year’s SN 10 enjoy the journey, not just the discovery
With their sights set on topics ranging from green fuels and climate change to strange materials and mind control, these early- and mid-career scientists are proving their potential.
Sam Falconer
After nearly four years of painstaking work, in 1902 Marie Curie produced one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride from several tons of uranium ore. It took her another eight years to isolate pure radium. The effort won her a second Nobel Prize and cemented her legacy as one of science’s most tenacious minds.