Background
Born in 1940, she grew up in Chillicothe, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College.
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One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for isolating new radioactive elements. Despite these achievements, or perhaps because of her fame, she has remained a saintly, unapproachable genius. From family documents and a private journal only recently made available, Susan Quinn at last tells the full human story. From the stubborn sixteen-year-old studying science at night while working as a governess, to her romance and scientific partnership with Pierre Curie—an extraordinary marriage of equals—we feel her defeats as well as her successes: her rejection by the French Academy, her unbearable grief at Pierre's untimely and gruesome death, and her retreat into a love affair with a married fellow scientist, causing a scandal which almost cost her the second Nobel Prize. In Susan Quinn's fully dimensional portrait, we come at last to know this complicated, passionate, brilliant woman.
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Born in 1940, she grew up in Chillicothe, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College.
She began her writing career as a newspaper reporter on a suburban daily outside of Cleveland, following two years as an apprentice actor at the Cleveland Play House, a professional repertory company. In 1967, she published her first book under the name Susan Jacobs: a nonfiction account of the making of a Broadway play called On Stage (Alfred A Knopf). In 1972, after moving to Boston, she became a regular contributor to an alternative Cambridge weekly, The Real Paper, then a contributor and staff writer on Boston Magazine.
She has written articles for many publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and Ms Magazine.
Since 1987 Quinn has published three books on scientific and medical subjects and one dealing with artistic and social issues. She has served as the chair of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association New England, a branch of the writers’ organization International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Im Buch MADAME CURIE (Insel Verlag 1999) sind 2 Fakten falsch: 1. Foto Nr.24 entstand im Sommer 1905 2.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ist ein niederländischer Physiker und nicht eine Frau 1988 L.L.
( One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioacti...)