Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
Author(s): Lauren Redniss
The name Marie Curie is enshrined in every schoolchild's mind as one of the earliest and most inspirational female pioneers in the history of science. This title walks readers through the story of Curie's own life, which was marked by both extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma.
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Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies. A graduate of Brown University and the School of Visual Arts, she is a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2008-2009 she was a selected as a Fellow at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, where she completed her work on Radioactive. She teaches at the Parsons School of Design and lives in New York City.
General Fields
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- : It Books
- : It Books
- : 01 January 2011
- : United States
- : 01 January 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lauren Redniss
- : Hardback
- : 540.922
- : 208
- : Biography
