There was a certain glow in the air when Maria Sklodowska caught the eye of this French physicist in 1894
There the cold was so intense that at night she had to pile on everything 
... and an internationally known physicist, but an outsider in the French ... 
Becquerel himself made certain important observations, for instance that... [DOC] [TLE] PDF of main site - American Institute of Physics [PAR] French scientists recognized her abilities and pulled some strings.