![]() ![]() Curie took a governess’s job to put her sister through the Sorbonne. ![]() The author also acknowledges the tangle and messiness of her subject’s life. ![]() Marie acted essentially as a chemist.” She was, however, the one who sparked the pursuit into the mysteries of radium. in this journey of discovery, Marie and Pierre were equally involved. Curie, for instance, did not toil alone: “. Goldsmith does her best to set right some of the discrepancies between history and myth. Money problems hampered her research, and her research probably killed her. She was plagued by recurrent depressions. Her husband, brick though he was in other ways, left the household to her alone. ![]() Her father drove her hard down the intellectual path. In a world of vicious, institutionalized sexism, Curie was as “rare as a unicorn.” Nothing came easy, notes Goldsmith. Are they not wowing? First woman with a degree in physics from the Sorbonne, first female professor at the school, first woman to win not one but two Nobel Prizes, first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Medicine. Popular biographer Goldsmith ( Other Powers, 1996, etc.) pens a sharp, sprightly, refreshing portrait of the brilliant, melancholic scientist, affording a sensible look into her head and into the body of her work.įorget the myths surrounding Marie Curie (1867–1934), says the author, and consider her on merits alone. ![]()
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