Madame Curie

Madame Curie
ISBN-10
0307819124
ISBN-13
9780307819123
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
419
Language
English
Published
2013-02-06
Publisher
Doubleday
Author
Eve Curie

Description

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. It also spotlights her remarkable life, from her childhood in Poland, to her storybook Parisian marriage to fellow scientist Pierre Curie, to her tragic death from the very radium that brought her fame.

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