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

Lauren Redniss has created a fascinating and deeply moving visual biography that walks students through the story of Marie Curie''s life, which was marked by both extraordinary scientific discover and dramatic personal trauma. From her romantic partnership with Pierre, through his tragic decline from radium poisoning and death in a traffic accident, to the scandalous affair with another fellow scientist that almost jeopardized her second Nobel Prize, it also casts an eye forward to survey the changes wrought by Curie''s discovery of radioactivity--illuminating the path from the Curie laboratory past the bright red mushroom clouds in the Nevada desert through Three Mile Island and the advance in radiation therapy and nuclear technology today. Freshman Common Read: University of Cincinnati, Texas A&M Commerce

About the author

Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for non fiction. Her writing and drawing has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize. She was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library in 2008-2009 and became a New York Institute for the Humanities fellow in 2010. Beginning in 2012, she will be artist-in-residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She teaches at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Redniss, Redniss Lauren
• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2015
• EAN: 9780062416162
• ISBN: 978-0-06-241616-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 205 mm x 280 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: BIG IDEAS, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Science & Technology, ART: General, WOMEN'S STUDIES: WOMEN'S HISTORY, GRAPHIC NOVELS: HISTORY, WOMEN'S STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIO, GRAPHIC NOVELS: SCIENCE & MATH, GRAPHIC NOVELS: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: GENDER