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From the dust jacket: "She risked her life for science. That much is undeniable.
"The winner of not just one but two Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning—from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. Until recently, her notebooks were still so radioactive that scientists and scholars had to sign a medical release before looking at them.
"But her work, which led to the atomic age in science, was her also salvation: it sustained her through periods of black depression, drove her to succeed in the restrictive 'no girls allowed' world of nineteenth-century science, and was the bedrock of her marriage to fellow scientist Pierre Curie, who also fell victim to radiation sickness. (The Curies kept a vial of radium on the nightstand in their Paris apartment so that its gorgeous light was the last thing they saw each night.)"
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter One: The Gold-Medal Girl
Chapter Two: The Pact
Chapter Three: Magnetic Attraction
Chapter Four: Mr. and Mrs. Radioactive
Chapter Five: The Legend Begins
Chapter Six: Suddenly Famous
Chapter Seven: Shock
Chapter Eight: Embarrassment—on a National Scale
Chapter Nine: War Heroine
Chapter Ten: Madame Curie
Chapter Eleven: Genius Genes
Chapter Twelve: How She Changed the World
Bibliography
Index
Black and white drawings by Boris Kulikov illustrate the text.
