“Marie Curie: The Woman Behind the Mind” (2002) and “Mileva Maric: The Other Einstein”
1999, NR, 83 min.
Directed by Alana Cash, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

These documentaries about two very different women scientists should provide the stuff to expand any young kid’s mind about gender distinctions in the practice of science. Mileva Maric, about whom little is recorded, was Albert Einstein’s first wife and attended university with him. Marie Curie was the recipient of two Nobel Prizes, although her love affair with her work did not exclude real-life romance. All ticket proceeds will benefit future T.W.I.S.T. programs and help fund Cash’s next documentary on Anna Freud. For more on T.W.I.S.T. or this program see www.twistinc.org or call 380-9922. (See related story on p.43 of this week’s Screens section.)

This article appears in June 14 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.