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Free Download Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, "Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information "
English | ISBN: 022623584X | 2015 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 746 KB
In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements―the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences―are studied by schoolchildren across the world. When, in 2009, the New Scientist carried out a poll for the "Most Inspirational Female Scientist of All Time," the result was a foregone conclusion: Marie Curie trounced her closest runner-up, Rosalind Franklin, winning double the number of Franklin’s votes. She is a role model to women embarking on a career in science, the pride of two nations―Poland and France―and, not least of all, a European Union brand for excellence in science.

Free Download Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
English | December 21, 2010 | ISBN: 0061351326, 0062416162 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 102 MB
In 1891, 24-year-old Marie 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.