Obsessive Genius

Barbara Goldsmith Noʻah Ben-Porat First published 2004

About this book

Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society.

Subjects

biographies
biography
chemistry
chemists
chimistes
curie, marie, 1867-1934
femmes chimistes
histoire
history
history, 19th century
history, 20th century
radioactivité
radioactivity
radium
women
women, biography
women chemists
women, poland