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The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel review – lessons in chemistry

An artful account of a scientific genius and her female disciples leaves Marie Curie’s inner life an enigmaTo write a biography of a figure as well known as Marie Curie and still offer something fresh or surprising is no easy undertaking. The double Nobel prizewinner is, as author Dava Sobel acknowledges, the only female scientist most people can name. She has inspired more biopics and biographies than I can count, including those written by her two daughters. Parents of young children will have encountered her story in almost every one of the worthy children’s anthologies that adorn school bookshelves: she features in Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, She Persisted Around the World and Little People, Big Dreams.To help shed new light on such an iconic figure, Sobel, a bestselling writ...

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