Books by Lauren Redniss
“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
Interviews where books by Lauren Redniss were recommended
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Critical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
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The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism
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An Indispensable Truth: How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet
by Francis Chen -
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Energy: A Human History
by Richard Rhodes
Nuclear Books, recommended by Richard Wolfson
Nuclear Books, recommended by Richard Wolfson
In science, the word ‘nuclear’ refers to anything to do with the atomic nucleus, whether you’re using it to generate power or create weapons of mass destruction. Here, physicist and science educator Richard Wolfson recommends five books relating to things nuclear, from a book of graphic nonfiction about the Curie family to how fusion can save the planet.
