The Elements of Marie Curie, 9780008536923
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A woman scientist who changed the world, twice a Nobel winner.

The Elements of Marie Curie

how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    16 October 2024

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Summary

Marie Curie: A Trailblazing Life

For decades Marie Curie was often the only woman present at international scientific gatherings. Despite battling constant illness, she traveled extensively to share the groundbreaking secrets of radioactivity, a term she herself coined. To this day, she remains the only individual to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in two distinct scientific fields.

Curie’s ingenuity transcended the confines of the laboratory. In the wake of her husband Pier…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008536923
ISBN-10:0008536929
Author:Dava Sobel
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Fourth Estate Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:16 October 2024
Weight:270g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

Praise for The Elements of Marie Curie:

‘Marie Skłodowska Curie was unique, but her influence irradiated the futures of 45 women who worked in her laboratory. By restoring these pioneers to visibility, acclaimed historian Dava Sobel casts fresh light on the life and achievements of the first scientist to win two Nobel prizes’ Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge

‘Hard to put down! A wonderfully written biography of Marie Curie, that does not step away from the physics but also includes her life outside the lab, even including the black and white cat!’ Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist

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Praise for Dava Sobel:

‘She has an extraordinary gift of making difficult ideas clear’ Daily Telegraph

‘If you like your science lyrical, Dava Sobel is the author for you’ Independent

‘Sobel is an elegant stylist, a riveting and efficient storyteller, a writer who can bring the dustiest of subjects to full-blooded life’ New York Times

‘Sobel’s enthusiasm for her subject is absolute and she succeeds in transmitting it to the reader, quite a feat when the subject matter can be so tricky to grasp’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Lively, inventive … a masterly specimen of close-range cultural history’ Wall Street Journal

About The Author

Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller, Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, And the Sun Stood Still, and The Glass Universe, and co-author of The Illustrated Longitude. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Bradford Washburn Award, the Kumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. A former New York Times science reporter and current editor of the “Meter” poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island.

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