Name: Radioactive
ISBN: 9780061351327

Lauren Redniss

Presents the professional and private lives of Marie and Pierre Curie, examining their personal struggles, the advancements they made in the world of science, and the issue of radiation in the modern world.

Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

Radioactive

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Jeni Enjaian

From the first time as an upper elementary school student that I picked up a massive biography of Marie Curie that my dad owned, I have had a soft spot for reading anything and everything I can find about this woman. 
This book intrigued me and kept me reading. However, I do not think that I can recommend it. I loved the format. I think the compilation of creative structure, poetic in nature, and the images drawn by the author itself paints a fascinating picture. Yet, the inclusion, without warning of topic change, of other information related to radioactivity felt jarring and disconnected to the larger story being told. Good try but ... not quite there.

Silje Risøy Helgerud

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A truly luminous graphic biography of Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and their work. The graphics immersed you into this book, as well as the clever way Redniss interspersed the linear timeline of Marie Curie's life with seemingly random (but highly relevant) vignettes regarding radiation, accidents, and science. 

There was just enough details to give me an understanding of Curie's work without devolving into a scientific treatise. I was left wanting to know more and wondering why Hollywood has completely failed to bring this important woman to life on the silver screen. The tragedy of the untimely death of her husband, her highly controversial love affair with fellow scientist Paul Langevin, and the fact she is the first PERSON (let alone woman) to win two Nobel Prizes would make for a thrilling film adaptation.

My library is featuring this work as our Book to Art Club selection, and I could not be more pleased. I hope our club enjoyed it as much as I did!

In 1891, 24 year old Marie, née Marya Sklodowska, moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize. Newspapers mythologized the couple's romance, beginning articles on the Curies with "Once upon a time . . . " Then, in 1906, Pierre was killed in a freak accident. Marie continued their work alone. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, and fell in love again, this time with the married physicist Paul Langevin. Scandal ensued. Duels were fought. In the century since the Curies began their work, we've struggled with nuclear weapons proliferation, debated the role of radiation in medical treatment, and pondered nuclear energy as a solution to climate change. In Radioactive, Lauren Redniss links these contentious questions to a love story in 19th Century Paris. Radioactive draws on Redniss's original reporting in Asia, Europe and the United States, her interviews with scientists, engineers, weapons specialists, atomic bomb survivors, and Marie and Pierre Curie's own granddaughter. Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss's eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history's most intriguing figures.

Radioactive Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

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