{"product_id":"2026200013744-secondhand-marie-curie","title":"Marie Curie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew lives in the history of science burn as brightly — or as controversially — as that of Marie Skłodowska Curie, the Polish-born physicist and chemist who shattered the boundaries of a male-dominated world to become the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. Robert Reid's Marie Curie chronicles the full arc of her remarkable life, from her impoverished upbringing in Warsaw under Tsarist oppression to the luminous laboratories of Paris where she and her husband Pierre discovered polonium and radium, forever transforming our understanding of radioactivity and the very nature of matter. Reid presents his subject with unflinching honesty, capturing both the fierce intellectual brilliance and the profound personal sacrifices that defined her journey.\n\nBeyond scientific achievement, Marie Curie illuminates the deeply human story of a woman who navigated relentless prejudice, devastating grief, and public scandal with extraordinary resilience. Reid's prose is authoritative yet accessible, drawing on historical records to reconstruct a portrait that is as intimate as it is inspiring, situating Curie's legacy within the broader sweep of early 20th-century European history and the nascent women's rights movement. A life this singular demands to be understood in its full complexity — and Reid's account leaves the reader both humbled and electrified.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160899264731,"sku":"2026200013744-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/fc70a6ec-9451-47e3-b3b2-e6016e260d08.png?v=1787188303","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013744-secondhand-marie-curie","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}