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`Marie Curie': a life sparked by discovery and despair
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MARIE CURIE
A Life
By Susan Quinn
Simon & Schuster, 509 pp., illustrated, $30
Most Americans know only the broadest outlines of the life of
legendary French scientist Marie Curie: She, along with her husband,
Pierre, helped usher in the nuclear age by discovering the
radioactive element radium. She was awarded two Nobel prizes -- one
for physics and one for chemistry. And in the end, she died,
poisoned by the very radiation she labored to understand.
Over time, and with the help of family members who sought to shape
her historic legacy, Curie has become something of a scientific ...
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