The Elements of Marie Curie

As author Dava Sobel did so memorably in her portrait of Galileo through the prism of his daughter, she approaches Marie Skłodowska-Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy – from France’s Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway’s Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie’s elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

With the consummate skill that made bestsellers of “Longitude” and “Galileo’s Daughter,” and the appreciation for women in science at the heart of her most recent “The Glass Universe,” Sobel has crafted a radiant biography and a masterpiece of storytelling, illuminating the life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of the WWI era.

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