Lettere

by Marie Curie

Marie Curie è stata la prima donna a insegnare alla Sorbona, ma soprattutto la prima a ricevere il premio Nobel. Rimasta vedova prematuramente, con due figlie di soli nove e due anni, Marie Curie ha saputo coniugare la sua brillante carriera scientifica con il ruolo di madre. Questa raccolta di oltre duecento lettere, scambiate con le figlie tra il 1905 e il 1934, testimonia il profondo legame con Eve e Irène, oltre a offrire un interessante spaccato della vita quotidiana di questa pioniera della ricerca e dell'emancipazione femminile: dai viaggi di lavoro alle vacanze con amici e familiari, dagli esperimenti in laboratorio agli incontri con colleghi del calibro di Albert Einstein e Niels Bohr, dalle opinioni sugli avvenimenti storici all'educazione delle figlie.

Genres: Historical, Nonfiction

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2011

About the author

Marie Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; also known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first and only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

She was born in Warsaw, Vistulan Country, Russian Empire, and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. She was the wife of fellow-Nobel-laureate Pierre Curie and the mother of a third Nobel laureate, Irène Joliot-Curie.

While an actively loyal French citizen, she never lost her sense of Polish identity. Madame Curie named the first new chemical element that she discovered (1898) "polonium" for her native country, and in 1932 she founded a Radium Institute (now the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology) in her home town, Warsaw, headed by her physician-sister Bronisława.

Reviews

[Perle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super intéressant à lire. C'est un autre point de vue sur la vie de ces femmes exceptionnelles.

[Véronique]

Je me sens toujours voyeuse quand je lis des lettres. Cette fois-ci un peu moins: c'est seulement mignon, rien de trop intime... Sinon l'hypocondrie, la neurasthénie, la fibromyalgie de l'aînée et de sa mère. Étonnant.