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\n;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Central Library:geo:44.0314653,-12 1.2641556 GEO:44.0314653;-121.2641556 DESCRIPTION:The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel..\nhttps://dpl.libne t.info/event/15889648 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A luminous chronicle of the most famous wo man in the history of science\, and the untold story of the many remarkabl e young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar sci entific careers of their own. "Even now\, nearly a century after her death \, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name\," w rites Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science-Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet\, Sobel makes clear\, as brilliant as she was in the laboratory\, Marie Curie was equal ly memorable outside it. Grieving Pierre's untimely death in 1906\, she to ok his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne\; devotedly raised tw o brilliant daughters\; drove a van she outfitted with X-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I\; befriended Albert Einstein and other lumi naries of twentieth-century physics\; won support from two US presidents\; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life. \;
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