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The Elements of Marie Curie - Dava Sobel

The Elements of Marie Curie

How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

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Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2024
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-853691-6 (ISBN)
CHF 38,40 inkl. MwSt
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory.



‘A luminous and illuminating contribution to the cause’ Literary Review



For decades Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings, and despite constant illness she travelled far and wide to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. She is still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.


Her ingenuity extended far beyond the laboratory walls; grieving the death of her husband, Pierre, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne, devotedly raised two daughters, drove a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I, befriended Albert Einstein and inspired generations of young women to pursue science as a way of life.


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 Gleditsch and France’s Marguerite Perry, who discovered the element francium, to her own daughter, Irene, a Nobel Prize winner in her own right. The Elements of Marie Curie deftly illuminates the trailblazing life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time.



‘A book for our times celebrating both science and women’ Sir Paul Nurse, geneticist and Nobel Prize winner




‘Hard to put down! A wonderfully written biography’ Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist




‘A lucid, literate biography, celebrating a scientific exemplar who, for all her fame, deserves to be better known’

Kirkus

Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller, Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, And the Sun Stood Still, and The Glass Universe, and co-author of The Illustrated Longitude. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Bradford Washburn Award, the Kumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. A former New York Times science reporter and current editor of the “Meter” poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 240 mm
Gewicht 560 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Medizinische Fachgebiete Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren Nuklearmedizin
Medizinische Fachgebiete Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren Radiologie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
ISBN-10 0-00-853691-0 / 0008536910
ISBN-13 978-0-00-853691-6 / 9780008536916
Zustand Neuware
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