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Meet the Author: Dava Sobel
Tuesday, February 4th @ 6pm at Ashawag Hall

​​Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name. She gained world renown at age thirty-six, when she received the first of her two Nobel Prizes. Two years later, suddenly a widow with two young children, she took over the laboratory where she had worked alongside her husband and also assumed his teaching position at the University of Paris, becoming the first female professor ever to lecture there.


By her example and the extent of her fame, she drew aspiring [physicists and chemists to her. Women arrived at the Radium Institute from eastern and western Europe, from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and as far away as Canada to work or study under Marie Curie.


Dave Sobel's new book, The Elements of Marie Curie, combines her story-scientist, mother, mentor, war hero-with their stories of love, loss, and radioactivity.

 

Dava Sobel is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995, Bloomsbury 2005), Galileo's Daughter {Walker 1999 and 2011), The Planets {Viking 2005, Penguin 2006), A More Perfect Heaven {Walker/Bloomsbury 2011 and 2012), And the Sun Stood Still {Bloomsbury 2016), The Glass Universe {Viking 2016, Penguin 20i17) and The Elements of Marie Curie {Grove/Atlantic 2024). She has also co-authored six hooks, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake, and currently edits the "Meter" poetry column in Scientific American.

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