{"product_id":"marie-curie","title":"Marie Curie","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"A touching three-dimensional portrait of the Polish-born scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e) Madame Curie, the discoverer of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eradium and radioactivity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne  hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she  won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second  Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for isolating new radioactive  elements. Despite these achievements, or perhaps because of her fame,  she has remained a saintly, unapproachable genius. From family documents  and a private journal only recently made available, Susan Quinn at last  tells the full human story. From the stubborn sixteen-year-old studying  science at night while working as a governess, to her romance and  scientific partnership with Pierre Curie-an extraordinary marriage of  equals-we feel her defeats as well as her successes: her rejection by  the French Academy, her unbearable grief at Pierre's untimely and  gruesome death, and her retreat into a love affair with a married fellow  scientist, causing a scandal which almost cost her the second Nobel  Prize. In Susan Quinn's fully dimensional portrait, we come at last to  know this complicated, passionate, brilliant woman.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42278496141490,"sku":"9780201887945","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/missing-cover_67cf17b4-698a-470c-b28b-24dbdc710ae8.jpg?v=1741616639","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/marie-curie","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}