Radioactive Marie & Pierre Curie: a Tale of Love and Fallout

Name: Radioactive
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Author: Lauren Redniss

Auteur: Lauren Redniss

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Lauren Redniss Lauren Redniss

Engels
Paperback
9780062416162
10 september 2015
205 pagina's

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In 1891, 24 year old Marie, née Marya Sklodowska, moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize. Newspapers mythologized the couple's romance, beginning articles on the Curies with "Once upon a time . . . " Then, in 1906, Pierre was killed in a freak accident. Marie continued their work alone. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, and fell in love again, this time with the married physicist Paul Langevin. Scandal ensued. Duels were fought.

In the century since the Curies began their work, we've struggled with nuclear weapons proliferation, debated the role of radiation in medical treatment, and pondered nuclear energy as a solution to climate change. In Radioactive, Lauren Redniss links these contentious questions to a love story in 19th Century Paris.

Radioactive draws on Redniss's original reporting in Asia, Europe and the United States, her interviews with scientists, engineers, weapons specialists, atomic bomb survivors, and Marie and Pierre Curie's own granddaughter.

Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss's eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history's most intriguing figures.

A National Book Award finalist, the mesmerizing, landmark illustrated biography Radioactive is finally available in a stunning paperback edition. Through words and her own gorgeously crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the story of Marie Curie, nee Marya Sklodowska, and her working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, including their discovery of two new scientific elements with startling properties-as well as the tragic car accident that killed Pierre, Marie's two Nobel Prizes, and her scandalous affair with a married scientist. And Radioactive looks beyond the contours of Marie's life, surveying the changes wrought by the Curies' discoveries-nuclear weapons, radiation in medical treatment, and nuclear energy as a possible energy source-to create an eerie, wondrous, and moving evocation of one of history's most intriguing figures.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 10 september 2015
Aantal pagina's: 205
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Lauren Redniss
Tweede Auteur: Lauren Redniss
Hoofduitgeverij: Dey Street Books

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 203 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 279 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 202 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm
Verpakking lengte: 277 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 748 g

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EAN: 9780062416162

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Taal: Engels
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This book tells the compelling story, or better yet lovestory of Marie Curie and her partners, but also the passion for research. Add to that the fact that the illustrations not only complement, but truly tell part of the story, makes this book a mesmerising read. Have not seen anything like this before, fantastic!

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