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- Half life : a novel / by Cantor, Jillian,author.;
A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices. In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.But what if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie?Entwining Marie Curie's real story with Marya Zorawska's fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled-and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya's life, Jillian Cantor's unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved - as well as the world at large and course of science and history - might have been irrevocably changed in ways both great and small.- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934; Women chemists;
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- Marie Curie / by Cobb, Vicki.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-125), Internet addresses and index.Examines the life of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband Pierre, was awarded a 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium.LSC- Subjects: Curie, Marie, 1867-1934; Women chemists; Chemists;
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- Radioactive [videorecording] / by Satrapi, Marjane,1969-film director.; Pike, Rosamund,1979-actor.; Feuer, Yvette,actor.; Novak, Mirjam,actor.; Mile End Films (Firm),production company.; Studio Canal,film distributor.;
Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak.The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Fiction films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934; Women physicists; Women chemists; Discoveries in science; Radioactivity;
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