玛丽·居里元素：放射性光芒照亮女性科学之路

English | October 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 0802163823 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 5.97 MB

The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's 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 own

"Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science—Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant and creative as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally passionate outside it. Grieving Pierre's untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of twentieth-century physics; won support from two U.S. presidents; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life.

As Sobel did so memorably in her portrait of Galileo through the prism of his daughter, she approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy—from France's Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway's Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie's elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in Ève's later recollection, "discovered all at once what the retiring woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world."

With the consummate skill that made bestsellers of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, and the appreciation for women in science at the heart of her most recent The Glass Universe, Dava Sobel has crafted a radiant biography and a masterpiece of storytelling, illuminating the life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time.

Pulitzer Prize提名作家、《纽约时报》畅销书作者玛利亚·科拉尼创作了一部照亮最著名女性科学家玛丽·居里一生和事业的光辉纪事，同时也讲述了她在实验室中被培养起来的许多年轻女科学家如何也建立了自己的辉煌科学生涯的故事。 “即使在她去世近一个世纪之后，大多数人都能说出只有少数人知晓的玛丽·居里的名字，”黛娃·索贝尔在其令人难忘的《伽利略的女儿》一书中开篇写道。索贝尔描绘了唯一一位两项自然科学领域诺贝尔奖得主——1903年与丈夫皮埃尔共享物理学奖项和1911年独立获得化学领域的荣誉。尽管她在实验室中的才华横溢和创造力令人印象深刻，但索贝尔明确指出，玛丽·居里同样在科学之外也充满激情。她哀悼丈夫皮埃尔于1906年不幸离世后，仍继续担任巴黎大学物理教授；精心抚养了两个极具天赋的女儿；带着装有X光设备的送货车前往第一次世界大战前线为士兵提供医疗服务；与二十世纪物理学界的诸多大师如阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦交好；赢得了两位美国总统的支持，并启发了一代又一代世界各地的女性将科学作为生活方式。 索贝尔在《伽利略的女儿》一书中以女儿的角度描绘伽利略时所展现的独特视角，同样体现在她对玛丽·居里的叙述中——与她在实验室中的发现和名声并行叙述那些成为她的遗产的伟大女性们的故事——从发现元素钫的法国人玛格丽特·佩雷到挪威女科学家埃伦·格尔迪斯克；以及玛丽·居里的长女伊里娜，后者在1935年获得化学领域的诺贝尔奖。几十年来，她一直是国际科学会议上唯一一位坐在房间中的女性，尽管常年疾病缠身，但她仍然四处奔波，分享放射性物质的秘密——这一术语正是她首次提出的。她的两次美国巡演赢得了人们对她的谦逊的赞赏，尽管她在每次访问地点都受到欢迎；索贝尔在《玻璃宇宙》一书中对女性科学家之爱的颂扬与玛丽·居里二女儿伊芙后来回忆中的“我们一直生活着的一位退休女士”所引发的发现共鸣。 凭借《时差》和《伽利略的女儿》般的畅销书技巧以及对她作品中女性科学的热情，黛娃·索贝尔创作了一部耀眼的传记，并讲述了一个影响了我们时代的最重要人物之一的故事。

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