Marie Curie: A Life - Hardcover

Quinn, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671675427 ISBN 13: 9780671675424

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

Drawing on letters written to her husband Pierre after his death, a surprising portrait of the legendary scientist reveals her emotional depth, her role in unlocking the mystery of atomic structure, and her affair with a married colleague. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Quinn is the author of two highly praised biographies: A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney and Marie Curie: A Life. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

From Publishers Weekly:

Quinn (A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney) presents here a carefully researched, well-rounded study of Curie (1867-1934), the physicist credited with isolating radium. Born Marie Sklodowska in Poland, she left her home to study in Paris, where she met and married physics professor Pierre Curie. Agreeing with earlier accounts, Quinn depicts their marriage as a devoted partnership. The Curies together made an investigation of radioactivity, for which they shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics. But Quinn breaks ground in her detailed description, drawn from newly available papers, of Marie's life after Pierre's accidental death in 1906. At first so grief-stricken she neglected her two daughters, Irene and Eva, Marie later had a love affair with French scientist Paul Langevin. Because Langevin was married, Marie was vilified by the French press and was almost denied the 1911 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Photos not seen by PW. BOMC, History Book Club and QPB alternates.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0671675427
• ISBN 13: 9780671675424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512