Here is a book that might - through its very impersonality and
objectivity - prove pedantic. Far from it - the very simplicity of
the method gives dignity and beauty and drama to this biography of
the most extraordinary woman of our generation. I found every page
absorbingly interesting. The early part of the biography carries
the reader into the home of her childhood; then one follows the
difficult, poverty-striken years of adolescence and young
womanhood, before her sister's marriage made it possible for her to
carve her own career. And then the career is the story - the woman
is science personified - her marriage, a too-brief glowing thing,
brightens the early' years, but fame can do nothing to offset the
supreme loss. Her younger daughter has shown Marie Curie as wife,
mother - but first and last, scientist. Literary Guild choice for
November. Sure to be a big seller. (Kirkus Reviews)
Marie Skodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to
win worldwide fame, and, indeed, one of the great scientists of the
century. Written by Curie's daughter Eve, 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 in Chemistry. It also, however, spotlights her
remarkable life, spanning from her childhood in Poland, to her
storybook Parisian marriage to fellow scientist Pierre Curie, to
her tragic death from the very radium heat that brought her fame.
Both professionally and personally, Marie Curie was respected and
admired by her male colleagues, at a time when few women achieved
such equal status. Her mind and remarkable life are recounted
lovingly by her daughter in this biography.
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