They attended evenings hosted by the notorious Eusapia Palladino, a medium who was popular among the intellectuals in Paris. Marie and Pierre, along with many other scientists and great thinkers of their day, were intrigued by psychics and seances. The matter actually led to several duels.īut I was particularly fascinated to learn about the Curies' earlier connection with the occult. Her fellow scientists - many of whom had no problem with extra-marital dalliances on the part of male colleagues, such as Einstein - wrote advising Curie to decline her invitation to Stockholm to accept her second, solo, Nobel Prize. The most dramatic involved her affair after Pierre's untimely death in a horse carriage accident, and the problems it caused in her professional life. (She and Pierre also won the prize in physics, in 1903.) As a biography, * Radioactive *makes the already exciting life of Marie Curie even more exciting, relaying aspects of Curie's life that most of us have never heard about. It is, of course, the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It's a combination that lifts the book above either graphic novel or artbook to create something new and exciting. In Radioactive, Redniss has made the narrative part of the picture, and used images to comment on, as well as illustrate, the story. It had also been described as an art book. When I first heard of Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss, it was billed as a graphic novel about Marie and Pierre Curie.
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