After the birth of her first child in 1897, Curie would come home from the laboratory to breast-feed. The facts of a working woman's life in the late 19th century speak for themselves. Johnson,'' tells the remarkable story of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize without anachronistic editorializing. Goldsmith, whose books include ''Little Gloria. What a way to treat a woman! One of the strengths of ''Obsessive Genius,'' Barbara Goldsmith's excellent short biography of Marie Curie, is its suppression of anger. To see Marie Curie forced to sit among the audience in Stockholm while her husband, Pierre, gave the lecture following their joint receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1903 is infuriating. $23.95.įeminism is one of the most distorting of lenses. OBSESSIVE GENIUS The Inner World of Marie Curie.By Barbara Goldsmith.Illustrated. William Haseltine, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO Barbara Goldsmith makes an important addition to her growing body of work on the life and accomplishments of women who have shaped our history and our lives.” It is a fast-paced exciting tale of scientific adventure which I read in one sitting. “Obsessive Genius vividly portrays the powerful personal story of privation, sacrifice, triumph, and reward of one of the greatest scientists of the Twentieth Century, Marie Curie. Thomas Powers, author of Heisenberg’s War Barbara Goldsmith has uniquely captured the woman and her science.” But down the road she helped open-up nuclear energy, which meant atomic bombs, and put Curie center stage during one of the great turning points in scientific history. Marie Curie, the Polish-born discoverer of radium, had both in grand measure. “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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