Madame Curie: Opening Doors to Women, Peace, & Knowledge

Cover of Dava Sobel's book, The Elements of Marie Curie

An essential part of the road to full equality for women has been the opening of careers in the broad range of disciplines, many that were previously forbidden to women. Perhaps no person had as much effect as the woman known to the world as Madame Curie. We get a deep encounter with her in Dava Sobel's newly-released book, The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, in which Dava traces the life, science, & missions of Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, including eventual fruits of her life, among them 2 Nobel prizes, one in Physics and the other in Chemistry. Dava Sobel's books include titles like The Glass Universe, Galileo's Daughter, and A More Perfect Heaven.

Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Jewish, Catholic, Humanism

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Dava Sobel

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