Obsessive genius doesnt shy away from marie curie s recurrent clinical depressions, which began during her adolescence, nor from her obsessive, harddriving personality. Women to women ended its eleven year run on cuny tv in 2005. It won the prize for the best book of 2006 from the american institute of physics. Mar 16, 2021 obsessive genius the inner world of marie curie book. Editions for paperback published in 2009, 0393327485 paperback published in 2005, 03930574 hardcover publi. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
The book presents an evenhanded picture of repeated conflict between her love of her husband and children one of whom, irene joliet curie, in 1935 became the second woman. The inner world of marie curie aims to illuminate the personal side of the physical chemist, born maria sklodowska 18671934, and break. Goldsmith, who had access to many previously sealed papers belonging to marie curie, was able to probe into the apparent thought processes that lead this person of science through the struggles of life to scientific immortality. Barbara goldsmith is the brilliant discoverer of marie curie.
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May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Book cover if you ask anyone to name a famous female scientist, invariably they will answer marie curie. Jan 01, 2005 through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, barbara goldsmith reveals the marie curie behind the mythan alltoohuman woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passionate nature. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Summary the myth of marie curie the penniless polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the worlds ills, including cancerhas obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution. Barbara goldsmith was interviewed by lynn sherr about her book obsessive genius. Prizewinning author and social historian barbara goldsmith was born in new york. Hammons center for scientific studies at union university.
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