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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries)
Obsessive Genius The Inner World of Marie Curie - Great Discoveries
Author: Barbara Goldsmith
Best-selling author Barbara Goldsmith on the myth and reality behind the extraordinary "Madame Curie." The myth of Marie Curie—the penniless Polish immigrant who, through genius and obsessive persistence, endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills including cancer—has ob...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393327489
ISBN-10: 0393327485
Publication Date: 10/3/2005
Pages: 320
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Disappointing. The subtitle of the book, "The Inner World of Marie Curie" promises insights and information that the book does not deliver. There are very few quotes from Curie in the book, even when it's clear that the material is available. For instance, Marie's love letters to Paul Langevin were published in the tabloids of the day but almost not quoted in this biography. Also we don't get contemporaries' views of her except in minuscule snippets.
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A great study of a fascinating and historically important woman. Takes the reader beyond the myth of Madame Curie, to the flesh-and-blood woman and the scientific discovery that obsessed her completely.

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Marie Curie (Primary Character)
Pierre Curie (Major Character)

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