Marie Curie: A Life (Radcliffe Biography Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (704 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0201887940 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Quinn (A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney) presents here a carefully researched, well-rounded study of Curie (1867-1934), the physicist credited with isolating radium. BOMC, History Book Club and QPB alternates. Because Langevin was married, Marie was vilified by the French press and was almost denied the 1911 Nobel Prize for chemistry. At first so grief-stricken she neglected her two daughters, Irene and Eva, Marie later had a love affair with French scientist Paul Langevin. Agreeing with earlier accounts, Quin
Despite these achievements, or perhaps because of her fame, she has remained a saintly, unapproachable genius. In Susan Quinn’s fully dimensional portrait, we come at last to know this complicated, passionate, brilliant woman.. From family documents and a private journal only recently made available, Susan Quinn at last tells the full human story. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for isolating new radioactive elements. From the stubborn sixteen-year-old studying science at night while working as a governess, to her romance and scientific partnership with Pierre Curiean extraordinary marriage of equalswe feel her defeats as well as her successes: her rejection by the French Academy, her unbearable grief at Pierre’s untimely and gruesome death, and her retreat into a love affa
"As if I was walking in her shoes" according to A Customer. Growing up in Poland, being interested in science and scientists and loving biographies "made me" reach for Susan Quinn book, Marie Curie: A life. A life,what an accurate title! The book is about one of the scientists of its (and even current) times, but it is titled modestly, ":A life". This means, Susan Quinn introduced this intriguing woman as a normal, day to d. "Five Stars" according to John Clippinger. This is a well researched and well written book!. Great book! Tina Kopp As described!