The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel
- The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
- Dava Sobel
- Page: 336
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- ISBN: 9780802163837
- Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Notes From Your Bookseller Few people have left as profound an impact on the world of science as Marie Curie, and she did it in two different fields. This history examines her life from top to bottom, both in terms of her contributions to modern science, and in terms of who she was as a person. The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own “Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,” writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science—Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant and creative as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally passionate outside it. Grieving Pierre’s untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of twentieth-century physics; won support from two U.S. presidents; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life. As Sobel did so memorably in her portrait of Galileo through the prism of his daughter, she approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy—from France’s Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway’s Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie’s elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in Ève’s later recollection, “discovered all at once what the retiring woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world.” With the consummate skill that made bestsellers of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, and the appreciation for women in science at the heart of her most recent The Glass Universe, Dava Sobel has crafted a radiant biography and a masterpiece of storytelling, illuminating the life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time.
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
A luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science ; byDava Sobel ; Details. ISBN-10: 0802163823. ISBN-13: 9780802163820
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
A luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
This disappointing history from science writer Sobel (The Glass Universe) comes up short in examining how Marie Curie (1867–1934) kick-started dozens of women
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
A luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
By Dava Sobel. $30.00. Add to Wish List. Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now. Description. The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science ; Author: Dava Sobel ; Format: Trade Paperback ; Release Date: 10 Oct 2024.
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
Approaching Marie Curie from a unique angle, Sobel navigates her remarkable discoveries and fame alongside the women who became her legacy – from Norway's Ellen
The Elements of Marie Curie
The Elements of Marie Curie. How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. by Dava Sobel. The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit
This new biography by Dava Sobel (The Glass Universe, Longitude, Galileo's Daughter) traces not only the legend of Curie's own scientific breakthroughs.
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