{"product_id":"marie-curie-radium-earrings","title":"Marie Curie Radium Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe carried test tubes of radium in her pockets. She kept glowing samples in her desk drawer. Marie Curie was so intimate with her discovery that her personal notebooks, more than a century later, are still too radioactive to handle without protective clothing. That kind of devotion — reckless, obsessive, world-altering — doesn't fit neatly into a textbook. It belongs somewhere closer to the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurie remains the only person in history to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. She isolated radium in a leaking shed in Paris, working with her bare hands in conditions that would horrify a modern chemist, and she did it at a time when the scientific establishment barely acknowledged women could think. The element she discovered glowed pale blue in the dark. She called it beautiful. It killed her, and she never stopped loving it. There is something in that — in the refusal to separate beauty from danger, knowledge from sacrifice — that feels essential to who she was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese earrings render the radium molecule in vivid, unapologetic color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut from recycled acrylic with clean precision, each pair hangs 1¼ inches from stainless steel ear wires in silver — hypoallergenic and nickel-free, so they're as considered in craft as they are in concept. At 5 grams per earring, they carry just enough weight to feel intentional without dragging. The acrylic holds bold, saturated color that reads like a vintage science poster, the kind you'd find pinned to the wall of a midcentury university lab.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted in North Carolina by Bold Standard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bold Standard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894772920367,"sku":"022-E-10012","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/IMG-5539.jpg?v=1773008248","url":"https:\/\/haroldandhazel.com\/products\/marie-curie-radium-earrings","provider":"Harold \u0026 Hazel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}