02644cam a2200565 i 4500 1262060734 TxAuBib 151029t20152011||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062416162 paperback 0062416162 paperback (OCoLC)19710 TxAuBib rda Redniss, Lauren, author. Radioactive : Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love & fallout / by Lauren Redniss. Marie and Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout. Radioactive. First Dey Street books paperback edition published 2015. [London : Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. ©2011. 205 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2011 by It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Includes bibliographical references. Symmetry -- Magnetism -- Fusion -- White flash -- Instability of matter -- Half-life -- Isolation -- Exposure -- Daughter elements. Through words and her crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the story of Marie Curie, n♭e Marya Sklodowska, and her working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, including their discovery of two new scientific elements with startling properties-as well as the tragic car accident that killed Pierre, Marie's two Nobel Prizes, and her scandalous affair with a married scientist. And Radioactive looks beyond the contours of Marie's life, surveying the changes wrought by the Curies' discoveries-nuclear weapons, radiation in medical treatment, and nuclear energy as a possible energy source. Curie, Marie 1867-1934. Curie, Pierre 1859-1906. Physicists France Biography. Physicists. Chemists France Biography. Chemists. Women chemists Poland Biography. Women chemists. Radioactivity History. Radioactivity. Comic books, strips, etc. France. Poland. Biography. Comics (Graphic works.) Graphic novels. History. Biographical comics. Biographies.