Obsessive Genius - The inner World of Marie Curie (Broché)

Marie Curie remains the only woman to have won two Nobel prizes -the first in 1903 for the discovery of radioactivity and the second in 1911 for the discovery of radium and polonium. What is even more remarkable is that the Nobel Prize wasn't awarded to another woman until twenty years later, and it was Marie's daughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, helped create the first atomic pile in France. Barbara Goldsmith uses original research to reveal the woman behind the icon. The result is not only a timely reappraisal of a scientific dynasty but also a dazzling portrait of Curie and the price she paid for her fame.