Title:
Radioactive : Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love & fallout
Author:
Redniss, Lauren, author.
ISBN:
9780062416162
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Dey Street books paperback edition published 2015.
Physical Description:
205 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
General Note:
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2011 by It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Contents:
Symmetry -- Magnetism -- Fusion -- White flash -- Instability of matter -- Half-life -- Isolation -- Exposure -- Daughter elements
Abstract:
Through words and her crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the story of Marie Curie, née 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.
