Madame Curie: The great biography (Rare, 1944)

“This is a noble and beautiful book.” Sir Hugh Walpole

“Extremely moving … extraordinary sympathy.” Times

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and one of the greatest scientists of this century. She performed fundamental and pioneering studies with radium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity, and this led to her being awarded two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911). The history of her story-book marriage to Pierre Curie, of their refusal to patent their processes or otherwise profit from the commercial exploitation of radium, and her tragically ironic death are legendary and well known, but they are here revealed as true and from the inside perspective of her daughter. An astonishing mind and a remarkable life are here portrayed by Marie Curie’s daughter in a classic and moving account.