Physics
Marie Curie redefined the role of women in science by training a generation of “lab daughters” to have stellar careers, shows Dava Sobel’s detailed and intimate new biography, The Elements of Marie Curie
By Chen Ly
Marie Curie pictured at work in her laboratory in Paris, in 1912
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The Elements of Marie Curie
Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate, UK; Grove Atlantic, US)
ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children, and became known as “Manya” by her family.
She was a voraciously curious child who learned to read at the age of 4 and developed a fascination with science, thanks in large part to her father, a teacher of physics and mathematics. Even so, no one could…
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