by Marie Curie · EDICIONES UAB · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493871710
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This book compiles the biographical writings of Marie Curie, offering an intimate look at her personal and professional life. Through excerpts from her diary, the biography of her husband Pierre Curie, and an autobiographical sketch, her deepest feelings, scientific achievements, and the challenges she faced as a woman in the academic world are revealed. A unique opportunity to get to know the scientist from her own voice.
Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
