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What if Marie Curie’s greatest legacy was not her two Nobel prizes?

A compelling book uncovers little-known aspects of the iconic chemist’s life, and the pioneering — if troubled — careers of the women who worked with her.
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  1. Michelle Francl

    1. Michelle Francl is a chemist and historian and philosopher of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania and the Vatican Observatory, Vatican City.

Photo of female scientist sitting at a desk covered in instruments.

The renowned Polish–French chemist led her and her husband’s laboratory after he died in 1906. Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel Atlantic Monthly Press (2024)

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Nature 634, 289-290 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03261-0

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