Obsessive Genius

The Inner World of Marie Curie

Barbara Goldsmith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2005
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-297-84767-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Marie Curie reamins the only woman to win two Nobel prizes - the first in 1903 for the discovery of radioactivity and the second in 1911 for the discovery of radium and polonium. Her discovery of radium opened the door to the exploration of the atom. What is even more remarkable is that the Nobel prize wasn't awarded to another woman until twenty years later, and it was Marie's daughter - Irene Joliot-Curie - who received it for discovering artificial radioactivity. In turn Irene's daughter, Helene Langevin-Joliot, helped create the first atomic pile in France. The legacy of Marie Curie, her daughter and grand-daughter makes for a fascinating story of the family who released the radioactivity that has transformed our world. Barbara Goldsmith takes these three generations and shows how their work led from a desire for the betterment of humanity through peaceful energy, medical treatments and industrial applications to the knowledge to creat the atom bomb and other weapons of mass destruction.

Autor

Prize-winning author and social historian Barbara Goldsmith was born in New York City, graduated from Wellesley College, and holds three doctorates. A founding editor of New York magazine, she currently contributes to the New York Times, Architectural Digest, and The New Yorker. She is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Little Gloria ... Happy At Last and Johnson v. Johnson. A trustee of the New York Public Library, Goldsmith also serves on the President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2005
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 145 x 220 mm
• Gewicht: 480 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• ISBN-10: 0-297-84767-8 / 0297847678
• ISBN-13: 978-0-297-84767-0 / 9780297847670
• Zustand: Neuware