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CONTACT:has@seas.harvard.edu
ORGANIZER:Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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DESCRIPTION:The myth of Marie Curie—the penniless Polish immigrant who\, 
 through genius and obsessive persistence\, endured years of toil and depriv
 ation to produce radium\, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills inclu
 ding cancer—has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries.
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 \nCurie's shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an
  atomic property that could be used to discover new elements.
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\nWhile he
 r work won her two Nobel Prizes and transformed our world\, it did not libe
 rate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific commun
 ity or society. Here is an all-too-human woman trying to balance science\, 
 love\, and the family values that constitute her legacy.
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\nUsing origina
 l research (diaries\, letters\, and family interviews) to peel away the lay
 ers of myth and reveal the woman behind the icon\, the acclaimed author and
  historian Barbara Goldsmith offers a dazzling portrait of Curie\, her amaz
 ing discoveries\, and the price she paid for fame.
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\nBARBARA GOLDSMITH\,
  the notable author and historian\, has written several best-selling and pr
 estigious award-winning books and articles. Her books include The Straw Man
 \, Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last\, Johnson v. Johnson\, Other Powers: T
 he Age of Suffrage\, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull\, an
 d Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. This book has been tran
 slated into fourteen languages and just earned her the American Institute o
 f Physics highest honor for a writer\, its 2006 Science Writing Award.
SUMMARY:Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
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LOCATION:Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Maxwell Dworkin
  Building Lessin Auditorium (G115)
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