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November 7th 2017 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867 – 1934), the only woman to ever be awarded two Nobel prizes.
We are proud to celebrate Madame Curie's life and legacy on her 150th birthday with a collection of specially commissioned blogs and curated free content around the theme of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Check out the blog where we reproduce Chapter 4 from Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics, 'Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)’ by author Abraham Pais, the biography of the the only person to ever be awarded Nobel prizes in two distinct disciplines.
...“The study of this phenomenon seemed to us very attractive . . . I decided to undertake the study of it . . . In order to go beyond the results reached by Becquerel, it was necessary to employ a precise quantitative method.”...
- Marie Curie 1929
Check out these blog posts from our authors
Edited by:
Nina Byers, University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Williams, University of California, Los Angeles
"This book fills a vacuum in the history of physics. For the first time we have in one place clear accounts of careers and contributions to physics of 40 distinguished women from a variety of fields. In particular, the authors are informed insiders with intimate knowledge of their fields who often provide fresh information about their subjects...'' Margaret W. Rossite, Cornell University
Author: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Edited by: Katherine Haramundanis, DIGITAL Equipment Corporation, Massachusetts
"[Payne-Gaposchkin] did not receive fair treatment in her career, but this book is testement to her dogged persistence." - Journal of the British Astronomical Association
"The book artfully records a life of warmths and delight won against obsessive, powerful but pervasive forces. The record has a value beyond its period and circle. This is a chronicle of affirmation and hope, a near-poetic witness to a burst of profound discovery insufficiently recognised." - Philip Morrison, Scientific American
