Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook on disc 2. Read by Nicola Barber.
Contents:
Symmetry -- Magnetism -- Fusion -- White flash -- Instability of matter -- Half-life -- Isolation -- Exposure -- Daughter elements
Summary:
Through words and her crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the story of Marie Curie, née Marya Sklodowska, and her working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, including their discovery of two new scientific elements with startling properties -- as well as the tragic car accident that killed Pierre, Marie's two Nobel Prizes, and her scandalous affair with a married scientist. This book also looks beyond the contours of Marie's life, surveying the changes wrought by the Curies' discoveries -- nuclear weapons, radiation in medical treatment, and nuclear energy as a possible energy source.
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