“Great lives in science are all about passion and curiosity. “Barbara Goldsmith has written a superb study of a fascinating and historically important woman whose life is a great deal more interesting than the myth it inspired. Barbara Goldsmith is the brilliant discoverer of Marie Curie." Marie Curie was the brilliant discoverer of radium and the radioactivity crucial to modern science. Barbara Goldsmith gives us a flesh-and-blood woman whose life and work will inspire our own. "History has treated Marie Curie as a mysterious genius, as if she sprang full-blown from the head of Zeus-or perhaps her husband. Timothy Ferris, author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way and Seeing in the Dark “An uncommonly heartfelt and empathic profile of a scientific hero.” Walter Isaacson, Director or the Aspen Institute for Physics and the Humanities “In this fascinating life of Madame Curie, Barbara Goldsmith powerfully conveys both the magic of science and the struggle of being a woman in a man’s universe.” PRAISE FOR OBSESSIVE GENIUS: THE INNER WORLD OF MARIE CURIE
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