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Reid, Robert Marie Curie
London Camair Press 1984 0950962805 / 9780950962801 First Thus Hard Cover Fine Near Fine
A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. 349 pages. 15 illustrations. First published in 1974, this edition is reprinted with amendments. The name of Marie Curie evokes a legend: an ascetic, blonde young woman holding a flask from which gleams the light of a miraculous new element - radium: a woman whose skill and persistence altered the path of 20th century science. This biography gives a portrait of Marie Curie very different from the traditional image of a plaster saint. As a scientist working at the beginning of the century she was distinguished by extraordinary will and perseverance, but still more by the fact that she was a woman ahead of her time. Society reacted with cruel ambivalence as at first she was put on a pedestal, then dragged through the mire of a Parisian sex-scandal. Her work opened a new era of nuclear physics and made possible a therapy for cancer, her first Nobel Prize marked her achievement. But how deserved was the second award that made her the only person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes for science? How far was the scientific establishment trying to compensate for the cruelty of society? With authority and sympathy, the author tells the story of a woman of passion whose scientific creation, in the last of her life's bitter ironies, ended by killing her. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB ****
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