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“It’s a wonderful look both biographically and artistically and scientifically at Marie and Pierre Curie, although Pierre dies about halfway through the book because he was run over by a horse carriage and killed. It talks at length about Marie Curie’s affair, after Pierre’s death, with Pierre’s student Paul Langevin and the impact that had. You can imagine in the early 20th century it wasn’t easy. The book really does blend the scientific and the personal very, very beautifully…It’s graphic nonfiction.” Read more...
Richard Wolfson, Scientist
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