![]() ![]() ![]() Recommended for all libraries.-Hilary Burton, formerly with Lawrence Livermore National Lab, CA (c) Copyright 2010. She also provides an excellent portrait of the age in which Marie Curie was to do so much for the world. Unlike Susan Quinn's detailed Marie Curie, which concentrates on Curie's scientific life, Goldsmith focuses on the social and economic hurdles that Curie had to overcome to manage the roles of scientist, wife, mother, and staunch French wartime ally. The hypocrisy of the times, particularly regarding Marie's affair with Paul Langevin (her late husband's student), is so striking that one wonders why Curie retained her incredible loyalty to France. But she has interwoven with Curie's scientific progress the emotional and personal costs involved, from Curie's early years as a governess to the ongoing battles for sexual equality in the scientific academies of Europe. ![]() Happy at Last) has produced a finely detailed and well-researched biography. Library Journal Review Marie Curie's ability to focus her intelligence on what she wanted to accomplish is legendary, and in this exploration of Curie's "obsessive genius" Goldsmith (Little Gloria. ![]()
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