Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "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 remarkable truth behind her discoveries. Marie Curie's shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be..... More
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