The Elements of Marie Curie. The Price of a Dangerous Discovery

One of the best books of 2024 from a Pulitzer Prize finalist!
Marie Curie is the only woman to have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice. After the tragic death of her husband, she took over his department at Sorbonne and raised their two daughters alone. She spent days in her laboratory, discovering elements that turned the world upside down.
Before you is a vivid portrait of a brilliant scientist, woven from personal diaries and archival photographs.
In the midst of World War I, she fearlessly traveled to the front with a mobile X-ray machine. In rare moments of calm, between conferences, she loved to walk in the mountains, befriended Einstein and other great minds of the 20th century. She charmed two American presidents and became an icon of feminism in her time.
Quirky and open, she conquered not only the peaks of science but also people's hearts.