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Loading... Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (2005)by Barbara Goldsmith
None. Barbara Goldsmith's biography of Marie Curie is a wonderful portrait of the scientist and the woman. Her work is placed in the context of the science in Europe in the early 1900s, so that you can truly understand its groundbreaking nature. You learn about other scientists whose work intersected with and competed against the Curies, such as Roentgen, Becquerel and many others. Goldsmith also addresses Marie Curie's struggle for recognition, for simple acceptance, as a woman in a male-dominated world: how she would have been passed over for the Nobel Prize if her husband, Pierre Curie, had not stood up for her, how she was rejected from scientific academies, how she had to beg for money even after winning the Nobel Prize. Her personal struggles with depression as well as her relationships with her loving husband, children and others in her world are also finely depicted. Altogether a very worthwhile read. (  ) krazy4katz | Jan 23, 2012 |  An oddly bloodless biography, offered almost as a corrective, it feels rushed and, at the end, as if the author were trying to extend it to make up a page count. In all, a disappointment to me. But it does give a complex portrait of a woman more often idolized than understood. ffortsa | Dec 25, 2009 | An excellent addition to Norton's Great Discoveries series. I'm noticing a pattern with this series, by the way. The volumes written by historians or science writers (as this one was) tend to be quite good; those written by novelists, not so much. It'll be interesting to see if this continues for the rest of the series. (  ) wanack | Jun 28, 2008 | A very interesting and readable biography of Marie Curie. Full review: http://passionforthepage.blogspot.com/2008/04/obsessive-genius-by-barbara-goldsm... (  ) passionforthepage | Apr 25, 2008 |
Best-selling author Barbara Goldsmith brings us an inspiring biography of Marie Curie, exploring the real woman behind the scientist whose discoveries changed our world.
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