MARIE CURIE

by Robin McKown ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 3, 1959

A book on Madame Curie could not fail to capture interest and this is a factual and highly revealing biography of both Marie Curie, the famous Polish scientist, and her illustrious French scientist husband. Robin McKown has drawn her portrait objectively, showing both the spartan and dedicated scientist and the tender wife and mother. In the course of the story of the devotion to a goal, the discovery and the expansion of the values of radium, the reader acquires a good deal of relevant and interesting scientific data. It is an engrossing subject, competently handled, but it adds little to Alice Thorne's recent biography, The Story of Madame Curie, one of the best of Grosset's Signature books (see review p. 140 (J-74)). The point to remember, however, in considering this new volume is that it is directed to the next older age group.

Pub Date: Aug. 3, 1959

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION