Marie Currie
publication date: Friday, December 2, 2022 (part of Fall 2022)
category: 
Music
clue: She never won a Nobel Prize for her contributions to science, but after her twin sister ran away, she did meet up with her to sing about lamenting her absence.
explanation: Currie covered "Since You've Been Gone" with her twin sister Cherie Currie of the Runaways. She is not to be confused with physicist Marie Curie. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Samir Mehta
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