Dava Sobel.
DAVA SOBEL: MARIE CURIE BIOGRAPHY
THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE: HOW THE GLOW OF RADIUM LIT A PAH FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE (2024)
Maria Curie (1867 – 1934), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is an American author, whose work deals with scientific topics in a way that is intelligible to the ordinary reader. In addition to her book on John Harrison, she has written books on Gallileo’s daughter, and on the 16th century astronomer Copernicus. Dava Sobel enjoys chasing solar eclipses, of which she has seen eight. She describes them as ‘the closest thing to witnessing a miracle’.
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