PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Like radium itself, Radioactive glows with energy. Through this intimate portrait of their lives and the science they studied, the reader is especially drawn to Marie Curie and can see her at the center of a chain of events that define the modern age. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Lauren Redniss has created a book that is both vibrant history and a work of art. Radioactive is a biography of a truly extraordinary couple, and an especially strong woman. Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss’ eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history’s most intriguing figures. Through brilliant storytelling, Redniss walks us through Curie’s life, which was marked by extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma - from her complex working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, to their discovery of two new scientific elements, to Pierre’s tragic death, to Marie’s two Nobel Prizes.Ī haunting and wondrous portrait of one of history's most intriguing figures, Radioactive is a stunning biography and a true work of art. Radioactive is the mesmerizing, landmark biography of Marie Curie, by acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss.

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Radioactive by lauren redniss