Marie Curie - A Life (Paperback, Revised)

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. Despite these achievements, or perhaps because of her fame, she has remained a saintly, unapproachable genius. From family documents and a private journal only recently made available, Susan Quinn at last tells the full human story. From the stubborn sixteen-year-old studying science at night while working as a governess, to her romance and scientific partnership with Pierre Curie,an extraordinary marriage of equals,we 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 affair with a married fellow scientist, causing a scandal which almost cost her the second Nobel Prize. In Susan Quinn's fully dimensional portrait, we come at last to know this complicated, passionate, brilliant woman.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1996
First published:	May 1996
Authors:	Susan Quinn
Dimensions:	229 x 151 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	509
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-201-88794-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-201-88794-0
Barcode:	9780201887945

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