Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller, Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, And the Sun Stood Still, and The Glass Universe, and co-author of The Illustrated Longitude. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Bradford Washburn Award, the Kumpke- Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. A former New York Times science reporter and current editor of the “Meter” poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island.
<p>Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and</p><p>work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of the</p><p>young women who trained in her laboratory.</p><p>For decades Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings, and</p><p>despite constant illness she travelled far and wide to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she</p><p>coined. She is still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.</p><p>Her ingenuity extended far beyond the laboratory walls; grieving the death of her husband, Pierre, she</p><p>took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne, devotedly raised two daughters, drove a van</p><p>she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I, befriended Albert Einstein and</p><p>inspired generations of young women to pursue science as a way of life.</p><p>Approaching Marie Curie from a unique angle, Sobel navigates her remarkable discoveries and fame</p><p>alongside the women who became her legacy – from Norway’s Ellen Gleditsch and France’s</p><p>Marguerite Perry, who discovered the element francium, to her own daughter, Irene, a Nobel Prize</p><p>winner in her own right. Elements of Marie Curie deftly illuminates the trailblazing life and enduring</p><p>influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time.</p>
