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Author Goldsmith, Barbara.

Title Obsessive genius : the inner world of Marie Curie / Barbara Goldsmith.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, ©2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CURIE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY CURIE, MARIE    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B CURIE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B CURIE MARIE G    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  B CURIE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CURIE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B CURIE, MARIE    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B CURIE GOL    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B CURIE    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  B CURIE    Check Shelf

Edition 1st ed.
Description 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series Great discoveries
Great discoveries.
Note "Atlas books."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255).
Summary Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society.
Contents Early influences -- "I came through it all honestly" -- Paris -- Pierre -- Remarkable accidents -- "The question was entirely new" -- "The best sprinters" -- "A beautiful color" -- "What is the source of the energy?" -- "I will make him an help meet for him" -- "The disaster of our lives" -- "We were happy" -- The metamorphosis -- "My children ... cannot awaken life in me" -- "The chemistry of the invisible" -- Honor and dishonor -- "She is very obstinate" -- "All my strength" -- The making of a myth -- To pass the torch -- Marie's legacy.
Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
Women chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 (OCoLC)fst00064685
Chemistry. (DNLM)D002621
History, 19th Century. (DNLM)D049672
History, 20th Century. (DNLM)D049673
Radium -- history. (DNLM)D011883Q000266
Women -- history. (DNLM)D014930Q000266
Chemists. (OCoLC)fst00853570
Women chemists. (OCoLC)fst01177392
Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
Genre/Form Biography. (DNLM)D019215
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 0393051374 (hardcover)
9780393051377 (hardcover)
0393327485 (pbk.)
9780393327489 (pbk.)
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