This work includes biographical essays on 23 women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the 20th century, including Marie Curie, Lise Meitner and Irene Joliot-Curie
Contains 17 full biographies and 6 briefer accounts of most of the early women pioneers in the study of radioactivity.
Contains 17 full biographies and 6 briefer accounts of most of the early women pioneers in the study of radioactivity.
Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie
Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie 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 obscured the ... truth behind her discoveries. Marie C…
Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie
Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie
Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie
Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society.
Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society.
Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie
Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society.