Two visionaries: Marie Curie forged a friendship with dancer Loïe Fuller | Ars Technica
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Pierre and Marie Curie attended one of Fuller’s performances at the Folies Bergère and were greatly impressed. The admiration was mutual: Fuller was so captivated by the Curies’ radium experiments that she wrote to them in 1905, asking about the possibility of making a costume out of radium (she was unaware of just how limited a supply was in existence). Marie politely advised against it, although she herself liked to carry around vials of radium and enjoyed visiting the lab at night because “the glowing tubes looked like fairy lights.” Undeterred, Fuller worked fluorescent salts into a black gauze dress that she wore to perform her “Radium Dance,” creating the illusion of twinkling stars or ghostly lights surrounding her as she swirled on a darkened stage.