Marie Curie pictured at work in her laboratory in Paris, in 1912
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The Elements of Marie Curie
Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate, UK; Grove Atlantic, US)
ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then half of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of 5 kids, and have become generally known as “Manya” by her household.
She was a voraciously curious youngster who discovered to learn on the age of 4 and developed a fascination with science, thanks largely to her father, a instructor of physics and arithmetic. Even so, nobody might…