The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Sports_Gift_Guide WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

When the German High Seas Fleet retreated

if anything comes of her crush back home

processing all she learns through the prism of her own experiences

from Capitol Hill to Penn Quarter

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Sports_Gift_Guide WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileos Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their ownEven now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name, writes