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Madame Curie: A Biography

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Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867�1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and he...more

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Published April 2nd 2001 by Da Capo Press (first published November 30th 1936)

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Jun 05, 2012 Peter R rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Madame Curie a bibliography written by Eve Curie is about the life of Marie Curie and her contributions to science. Marie was born with the name Manya on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She was born into the Sklodowska family and later changed her name to Marie Sklodowska when she left Poland to further he studies at the Sorbonne University of Physics in Paris, France.
When Marie left to study in France she met Pierre Curie who at the time was middle aged, and a Professor who was not in love...more Madame Curie a bibliography written by Eve Curie is about the life of Marie Curie and her contributions to science. Marie was born with the name Manya on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She was born into the Sklodowska family and later changed her name to Marie Sklodowska when she left Poland to further he studies at the Sorbonne University of Physics in Paris, France.
When Marie left to study in France she met Pierre Curie who at the time was middle aged, and a Professor who was not in love with anyone. Pierre had said, “…women of genius are rare…”(Madame Curie, 301) and when he met Marie, this statement became false. After some years of seeing each other they happily married and had to children named Irene and Eve. As a happy couple they worked hard in what they did, and at the time it was working with radiation. During their research, they received the aid of Henri Becquerel and as a team discovered Radium and Polonium. Radium named after radiation and Polonium named after Marie’s homeland of Poland. They won the Nobel Prize in Physics and later Marie won the Prize again in Chemistry, becoming the first to win two prizes and the first woman to with a Nobel Prize.

My Opinion on the book Madame Curie is that it is a very informative book but it does not bring an appeal that an adventure or mystery book would bring. Eve Curie, the daughter and author of the book did a very good job describing Marie’s life and I believe it could not be written any better because it was by her own daughter. By reading this book, I learned a lot of facts and information which was used in my Extravaganza, and helped me to learn more about science. I would suggest not reading this book unless you want to learn about Marie because it has no true plot and not very interesting.

My rating towards the book Madame Curie is 2.5 out of 5 stars. I think that if the book was interesting and appealed to all audiences I would give it a higher rating but because of its lack of spunk, I gave it a 2.5.
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Apr 11, 2012 Sydney Skala rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this novel. I didn't know who Marie Curie was and this book thoroughly described her. Marie was a very strong and independent character in the novel. I looked up to that greatly. She would do whatever she needed to get her studying done, and studying always came first. Her relationship with Pierre warmed my heart and broke it at the same time. They were so in love but it broke my heart when they couldn't even afford to buy ores to make the radium. Marie was also very passionate...more

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Dec 26, 2011 Valerie added it · review of another edition

I was pretty sure I'd read a different edition of this book, but I'm not so sure now. The copy I had had no dustcover, so it would look different.

Fair warning: parts of this book are very harrowing. Particularly the part about Pierre Curie's death. Don't read it anyplace where you have to deal with any stresses right away.

It's probably not surprising that a daughter's book was hagiographic. She loved not only her immediate family (including her brother-in-law), but also the scientific community...more I was pretty sure I'd read a different edition of this book, but I'm not so sure now. The copy I had had no dustcover, so it would look different.

Fair warning: parts of this book are very harrowing. Particularly the part about Pierre Curie's death. Don't read it anyplace where you have to deal with any stresses right away.

It's probably not surprising that a daughter's book was hagiographic. She loved not only her immediate family (including her brother-in-law), but also the scientific community she grew up in (and was partially educated in: see the description of the laboratory-roving school. It didn't eventually work out: but it's a fascinating model for education.) Naturally she wanted to remember the best parts.

And there are some descriptions of the hard bits: the fact that a girl of a scholarly bent (especially a 'logical positivist' with socialist leanings) was so discriminated against in Poland that she had to become a starving student at the Sorbonne (which had just begun accepting women at the time) in order to get an education: and even then, her own and her sister's educations had to take a back seat to their brother's. The difficulties in getting housing and laboratory space, and even being accomodated in classrooms. The fact that, because they refused to patent radium (because they didn't want it denied to all but the rich), Marya and Pierre themselves were eventually in a position in which they couldn't get radium for their labs, because they could no longer even afford the ores, which had shot up in price.

But there are few descriptions of the harm 'Madame Curie' did to herself and others, largely through stubborness. For example, she considered refusing even workspace in Pierre and his brother's lab, because she believed that he was making such access contingent on her marrying him. He wasn't, and he made that plain: but she considered going back to Poland without even trying to get a doctorate because she feared he was.

Then there was the question of the dangers of radiation. Madame Curie refused to believe that radiation poisoning was a real phenomenon. She argued that the radium, polonium, etc, could be handled by hand. provided that proper precautions were taken. This stubborness cost her not only her own life and that of Irene (and, quite possibly, Pierre's, since it's likely that the 'rheumatism' that so pained him and prevented him from being alert in traffic was radiation-induced). It also may have doomed many people to death, because (for example), many women who were hired to paint radium on glow-in-the-dark watches died of radiation-induced cancers.

Also, on reflection, I think it was probably a bad idea for Pierre Curie to abandon his own work (he and his brother were working on piezoelectricity, which has had very important impacts on current technologies) to take up Marya's work. I'm not saying I think he was influenced solely by his love for her. I think he genuinely believed that what she was doing was more important than what he was doing. I just think he was wrong, is all.
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Aug 28, 2011 Tamhack rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: all

This book was surprising to read just because I knew who Marie Curie was, that she discovered Radium and her work with it. But I didn't know her as a person. Her love and devotion to her husband, Pierre Curie, who they worked side by side. Her as a mother. How humble she was and devoted to her work as a pure scientist. Working for scientist for science sake. She won 2 Noble Prizes and was a director a lab and had positions and honors that women in a man's world was unheard of. She was very passi...more This book was surprising to read just because I knew who Marie Curie was, that she discovered Radium and her work with it. But I didn't know her as a person. Her love and devotion to her husband, Pierre Curie, who they worked side by side. Her as a mother. How humble she was and devoted to her work as a pure scientist. Working for scientist for science sake. She won 2 Noble Prizes and was a director a lab and had positions and honors that women in a man's world was unheard of. She was very passionate about her work, her home country (Poland) and her family. She was self-sacrificing- she worked as a nanny to give her older sister, Bronya who she was very close to, a chance to gain an education.
From a young age she was gifted with a mind to memorize and learn and was very focused.
She went about her life with humility, quietly working, without complaint. "She was proud but she was not resigned."
"Her brain was so precise, her intelligence who marvelously clear, that no "Slavic" disorder intruded to corrupt her effort. She was supported by her will of iron, by a maniacal fast for perfection, and by an incredible stubbornness. Systematically, patiently, she attained each of the ends she set for herself: she passed first in the master's examination in physics in 1893 and sec on in the master's in mathematics in 1894." She decided to learn the French language perfectly...
Of Pierre Curie: They had ..." one of the finest bonds that ever united man and woman. Tow hearts beat together, two bodies were united, and two minds of genius learned to think together. Marie could have married no other than this great physicist, than this wise and noble man. Pierre could have married no woman other than the fair, tender Polish girl, who could be childish or transcendent within the same few moments; for she was a friend and a wife, a lover and a a scientist.:
" Pierre's existence tended toward one ideal only: to engage in scientific research at the side of the beloved woman who also lived for scientific research. Marie's was a harder life, because to the obsession of work was added the humble and tiring tasks of womankind (As I can fully empathize with Marie, as I had to stop this and run down to prepare a meal for the family. Yes, the woman always has 4 times the work and burdens as a men--but Marie was a good example of how to deal with this--she did it uncomplainingly and tried to perfect her duties as wife and mother.). She could no longer neglect material life, as she had done in the austere and careless days of her study at the Sorbonne; and her first purchase on their return from the holiday was a black account book with the great word EXPENSES printed in letters of gold on its cover."
She was a devoted mother: " Marie was soon obliged to give up nursing on doctors orders--gut morning, noon, evening and night she changed, bathed, and dressed her daughter."
" She had no unmeasured generosities and no whims..."
During the WWI, she dedicated helping the wounded by going from place to place with a primative x-ray machine (Roentgen apparatus).
" She was never to speak of the hardships and dangers to which she exposed herself during these four years. She spoke neither of her unfathomable fatigues, nor the risk of death, nor of the cruel effect of X rays and radium upon her damaged organism. She showed her working companions a careless and even gay face--gayer than it had ever been. The war was to tech her that good humor which is the finest mask of courage."
She triumphed over cataracts.(less)

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Feb 03, 2011 Natalie Wickham rated it 5 of 5 stars

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A search for a new, engaging book to read during my Christmas and New Year’s break led me to the stocked shelves in my dad’s office. A tattered hardback with embossed lettering reading, Madame Curie, caught my eye. Not, I’m now embarrassed to say, because I recognized the name, but because I thought perhaps a good story was hidden within its pages. A brief perusal of the introduction and first chapter sufficiently convinced me of the artful excellence of the author, and it became my companion fo...more A search for a new, engaging book to read during my Christmas and New Year’s break led me to the stocked shelves in my dad’s office. A tattered hardback with embossed lettering reading, Madame Curie, caught my eye. Not, I’m now embarrassed to say, because I recognized the name, but because I thought perhaps a good story was hidden within its pages. A brief perusal of the introduction and first chapter sufficiently convinced me of the artful excellence of the author, and it became my companion for the next couple of weeks.

It was surprisingly difficult to pull myself away from the bigger-than-life story of a woman I now recognize as one of the world’s most renowned scientists. In fact, this story did for me what no amount of curricula could accomplish growing up – it gave me an appreciation for the study of science! I am more convinced than ever that a curriculum comprised in large part of great books is one of the highest and most effective forms of education.

This extensive biography sketches a fascinating picture of the quiet, unassuming woman who, along with her husband, Pierre, is credited with the discovery of radium. The recipient of two Nobel Peace Prizes and numerous other awards and honors, the devoted scientist never became enamored with fame or notoriety. In fact, quite the contrary, as she herself expressed in her letters:

“I long for calmer days passed in a quiet place, where lectures will be forbidden and newspapermen persecuted…Always a hubbub. People are keeping us from work as much as they can. Now I have decided to be brave and I receive no visitors – but they disturb me just the same. Our life has been altogether spoiled by honors and fame.”

Numerous other humorous and thoughtful anecdotes are interwoven throughout the book, generously allowing readers an in depth view of this amazing woman. I was inspired in many ways by Madame Curie’s character and the unified vision and life work she shared with her husband. Even though there is no indication that she was a Christian, it’s clear that God used her to fill an incredible role in history.
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Jul 09, 2010 Dianne rated it 3 of 5 stars

I am fortunate enough to have stumbled across an original copy, when a local school was cleaning out its library. Fascinating read. A bit "romantic" in the sense that her daughter wrote it as people talk about the deceased at funerals...as if she was nearly perfect, when in fact we can read between the lines and see that she was not. Not that this matters all that much, but it would have been nice, for instance, to understand her better as a mother. One would think a daughter's biography would h...more

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Mar 13, 2009 Shirleen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Marie Curie is someone I greatly admire for her dedication to science, her incredible work ethic, her total disdain for material wealth, her love of her children, her love affair with her husband, her humility in spite of great honors, her dedication to help mankind. Additionally, I loved reading her letters to friends and family members. This book taught me that to excel in an area many times means you have to dedicate much of your life to whatever that interest is - in other words, success com...more

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Mar 22, 2013 Dagny rated it 5 of 5 stars

I've always known about Madame Curie to a small extent, a great scientist, the discoverer of Radium, but the other day I happened upon the old 1940s movie with Greer Garson titled "Madame Curie" and I watched it. I noticed before it began that it was based on the book written by her daughter Eve in the 1930s. I loved the movie and was so moved by this woman's life, that I just had to read that book, so I immediately ordered it.

This is one of, if not THE best biographies I've ever read, and I've...more I've always known about Madame Curie to a small extent, a great scientist, the discoverer of Radium, but the other day I happened upon the old 1940s movie with Greer Garson titled "Madame Curie" and I watched it. I noticed before it began that it was based on the book written by her daughter Eve in the 1930s. I loved the movie and was so moved by this woman's life, that I just had to read that book, so I immediately ordered it.

This is one of, if not THE best biographies I've ever read, and I've read many. It not only told about the scientist, it also told about her personal life. I was absolutely fascinated that from her beginnings of being born and raised in Russian oppressed Poland, daughter of two intellectuals that were nonetheless forced into menial teaching jobs, they were poor, the Polish people were not allowed to learn their history or speak their language. Even so, her parents made sure that she and her siblings received a high level of education by actually sneaking around to do so, in hiding. Her eldest sister wanted to be a doctor, women could not go to a university in Poland, teen aged Marie worked as a governess and helped her sister go to France to medical school. After she graduated, Marie went to France to the famous university there.

From these meager beginnings, she continued to endure hardships, fainting from lack of food, living in poor conditions, but she continued on. She met and married her husband, also a scientist, who lo and behold, respected her and encouraged her and admired her for her gift of intelligence and endurance. They had a wonderful life and loved each other greatly. However, tragedy stuck and she was left alone to raise her small children. But she did and she was amazingly a good mother all the while being a great scientist. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only person at that time to win 2 Nobel Prizes, one in Physics, one in chemistry. She received her Phd.

In WW1 she unselfishly put her lab work on hold and contributed to the war effort by putting together the first portable x-ray machines carried by car and also installed many x-ray machines in hundreds of hospitals, and worked with them in the field. She often drove herself with these machines to the battle fronts. She did this for 4 years.

I took away from this biography a great respect and admiration for this woman of genius, who never gave up at and accomplished so very much in a time where women hardly ever even went to college. It just amazes me. Another amazing thing is, she could have been a wealthy woman after the discovery of Radium if she had only put a patent on it. But she refused to do this because she said that was not in the scientific spirit. She always avoided wealth and was really uncomfortable receiving so much overwhelming fame. She never did what she did for fame, she only wanted, more than anything since she was a child, to be some good to the world. And she did.

My most admired person in history.

This book was not dry in the least. It was written so well and flowed like a novel. I was interested in it from the first word, to the last sentence when I cried. Her daughter Eve was amazing at giving a personal, and factual biography of her mother who she admired and loved so much. The book was written from going over letters to and from Madame Curie to many people, memories of people that knew her, her lectures, her speeches,and her memories (Eve and her other daughter Irene). Nothing was fictionalized or made more than what is was, it showed this great lady in a very human light. It had enough personal parts in it and just enough scientific subject in it to make it interesting to anyone.

What a great woman, what a great story. I will read no other books on her, this is the most perfect book that could have been written about her. Who could have known her any better than her own daughter? What an inspiration!(less)

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May 24, 2012 Robert Gilbert rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have an older version of this book, Copyright 1937. It is always interesting to read an old book written before such history-altering events as the second world war. This one particularly interested me due to Madame Curie's contributions to science as well as her relationships with her husband and daughters.

The book is written almost entirely in third-person narrative. The author (her daughter) made an effort to disconnect herself, although there are a few times when she switches to first-pers...more

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Apr 08, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Nov 26, 2012 Tiffany rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Marie Curie was a genius and with the determination to teach herself in the unfamiliar topics known at that time. She dedicated herself to education and science. She shared her knowledge of different languages with others. Her husband, Pierre, and herself were able to share their love of one another and of science with the world. Marie endured the loss of Pierre and continue to remain devoted to accomplishing their dreams. She always carried him in her heart until her death. Fame and fortune was...more

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May 12, 2010 Curtiss rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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[When he was a young boy, Dr. Oliver Sacks had been given a copy of the original 1937 edition of Eve Curie's biography of her mother Marie Curie-Sklodowska, the same edition this review is based on in my real-world library.

In his own very personal collection of memoirs, "Uncle Tungsten", Dr. Sacks tells a charming story of how in 1987, as he delivered a lecture about her mother's career, he recognized Eve Curie sitting smiling in the back row. At the end of the lecture she had graciously autogra...more

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Feb 02, 2008 Krista rated it 5 of 5 stars

A rare find. I have a vague memory of salvaging this 1959 Pocket Book edition from my parents' garage sale box 14 years ago; while cleaning out my closet a few weeks ago, I almost tossed it...I’m not sure what made me change my mind and actually start to read the musty pocketbook with browned pages, a broken spine, and too-small print. I’m glad I did; it is, quite simply, an extraordinary story, beautifully written.

I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I knew nothing about Marie Curie before re...more A rare find. I have a vague memory of salvaging this 1959 Pocket Book edition from my parents' garage sale box 14 years ago; while cleaning out my closet a few weeks ago, I almost tossed it...I’m not sure what made me change my mind and actually start to read the musty pocketbook with browned pages, a broken spine, and too-small print. I’m glad I did; it is, quite simply, an extraordinary story, beautifully written.

I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I knew nothing about Marie Curie before reading this book except perhaps the most basic Trivial Pursuit knowledge, vaguely remembered--she and her husband were scientists (right?), I think they may have won the Nobel Prize (right?), something about radioactivity or something...?

This book tells the story, from the age of five, of a poor young Polish girl named Marya Sklodovska (better known by her adopted French first name, Marie, and her married name, Curie) who scraped together enough money by working as a governess first to help her elder sister Bronya through medical school in Paris, then to finally join her and continue her own studies, at the Sorbonne. (Women were not permitted to study at the university level in Russian-occupied Poland.)

Marya had every intent of returning to her homeland to continue to live and work in solidarity with the fomenting revolution against the Russian oppressors. But, after nearly a year of entreaty and almost against Marya’s will, a man named Pierre Curie--a renowned scientist who had become a close friend and fallen in love with her--persuaded her to stay in Paris to continue her scientific work, to be his partner in science and in marriage (in that order).

In the early months of her independent doctoral research studying the radioactive properties of materials containing uranium, Marie observed unexepected behaviors; she soon became convinced of the existence of another, more highly radioactive, substance. Her husband joined her as a much-needed collaborator. The rest is, most certainly, history: the discovery and subsequent isolation of the elements Polonium and Radium, and the discovery that Radium could be used to treat cancer. Astonishingly, although the Curies had struggled for years with meager finances and poor working conditions, they refused to apply for the patent that would have assured them a fortune--because it was not "in the scientific spirit."

Written by her youngest daughter, Eve (who, incidentally, I discovered, died just a few months ago at the age of 102), the story captures a life of intense passions, intense loves, and intense joys--which were practically inseparable from equally intense sorrows, sacrifices, and suffering. It is the kind of life you have to have extraordinary courage to live out. In the truest sense of the word, Marie Curie expended herself, all of herself.(less)

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May 12, 2009 Alida rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of the books that I fondly remember from my youth. It was the book that made me want to become a scientist/chemist. I went to college and studied chemistry but found out that it was not to be. Still wish that I could have gone that path. However, that being said, I was left with a lot of questions particularly about her youth and the period where she was a tutor/governess. Her daughter did a good job but you always need an objective and neutral voice in a biography and hers is not that voice...more

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May 05, 2010 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is the book I hope my daughter would write about me. It has been criticized as a work of history, but as a daughter's memory of her mother it is wonderful. It is also a shining tribute to women physicists. We're all like this, aren't we? It was made into a movie starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. The movie was filmed using Marie Curie's actually lab equipment and is as good as the book.

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Oct 26, 2011 Gene added it

What a life she led, persevering through hardship after hardship in order to "live for the pursuit of science." The book was written using a combination of the in-person accounts of her youngest daughter, Eve, (the author), friends, family, fellow scientists, and the actual writings of Marie Curie. An intimate account of an extraordinary life that contributed discoveries that have had a great impact ever since her devotion to work in the laboratory and teaching in the classroom was initially com...more

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Nov 07, 2009 umberto rated it 4 of 5 stars

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While studying in a secondary school, I read its Thai version translated from this wonderful biography written by her daughter (who lived to reach her great old age and passed away in 2007 at the age of 102). Madame Curie then became my scholarly model since I learned from her poverty, willingness and scholarship as narrated in this book.
I bought this old hardcover from a Wednesday make-shift bookstall in the Uni during my first visit to GSE/UQ, Brisbane in Australia on November 6, 1999. I think...more

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Jul 05, 2010 Katie Miller rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really liked this book. I was afraid it would be too technical for me to comprehend, but it wasn't at all. It described her life and her work in a way that make ssense for everyone. I couldn't sit down and read the whole thing at once like a novel, but that's okay-it gave me time to ponder the things I read. She really had a very difficult life, but I am glad her work gave her passion. She really seemed to have been a kind, loving person, at least as best as she knew how.

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Feb 18, 2010 Teri rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Read this a few years ago, and just found myself thinking about it. I especially like this biography because it was written by her daughter. It really is a must read because she has influenced the world to such a large degree! I loved learning about her personal life every bit as much as reading about her scientific discoveries.

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Jan 22, 2013 Guneeta Ghai rated it 4 of 5 stars

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My view regarding this book is : This book has introduced me to Madame curie as a person for the first time. Her struggles, her passion, her determination, her love for her husband and they both reach together towards the common goal" radium"-quite thought provoking, interesting insights- well written inspirational book.

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Apr 02, 2011 Cathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

What a beautiful book! It is inspiring and educational, and beautifully written by a daughter who rightfully loved and admired her mother. It is quite the love story about Pierre and Marie, too, and it is a sad sad thing he was taken so early in his life. It was brave of her to go on without him, doing all the grand things she did for humanity. One thought she wrote to her children: "My dear children, I send you my best wishes for a happy New Year -- that is to say, a year of good health, good h...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Amy Wolf rated it 4 of 5 stars

Such a wonderful book by Marie Curie's daughter. The hardships her mother faced coming from Poland to study in France were astronomical, much less her groundbreaking discover (with scientist-husband Pierre) of radium. There is an abridged version I would highly recommend for children. Enthralling!

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Dec 27, 2012 Paulomonic rated it 4 of 5 stars

A pleasurable read, but with too much romance and glamour, which Marie Curie's personna does not need. She is hugely impressive as a brilliant human character, and canonization does not contribute to improve what can not be improved. Understandable, though, since the author is Marie Curie's own daughter.

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Feb 02, 2011 Tukang Kueh Keren is currently reading it

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Trima kasih banyak kepada Nanto yang bersedia meminjamkan dan mengirimkan buku ini :D

Marie Curie adalah idola saya sejak kecil dulu, yang menginspirasi saya buat jadi scientist, biar pun sekarang scientist yang banting setir jadi tukang kue ---->tapi tetep keren.

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May 27, 2008 Heather rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anybody

Recommended to Heather by: My dad

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Jan 31, 2012 Kiersten rated it 4 of 5 stars

Marie Curie was absolutely amazing. I knew she discovered radium (although I didn't really understand the ramifications of that), and that was about it. Her services during WWI, for example, when she created mobile x-ray machines and drove around Paris helping in war hospitals. I really felt exhausted at times just reading about everything that she did. And the love story between her and Pierre was beautiful as well. The letters that she wrote to him after his death...I wish we still wrote like...more

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Oct 13, 2010 Lindsey rated it 3 of 5 stars

I knew nothing about Marie Curie except a slight knowlege that she was a scientist. It was interesting to learn that she was from Poland and that she was essentially a child genius. She had a very interesting life.

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Mar 19, 2009 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm not much of a fan on biographies, but I really liked learning about this scientific lady. I was impressed with her integrity and work ethic, it took enormous sacrifice to reach where she did.

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Feb 15, 2011 Lautaro Allende rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Jul 07, 2010 Luckngrace rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Read as a child, the life of Marie Curie encouraged me to seek a college education and to know that I could attain any goal I wanted and do great things with work and sacrifice.

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Madame Curie: A Biography

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