Profiles the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who described the nature of chemical bonds, made important discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, immunology, and evolution, and used his scientific fame to help advance political causes.
A biography of Marie Curie, whose discovery of radium changed science and the world, and describes her childhood, education, and the hardships she faced in her professional life.
the birth of a new science in an age of revolution
Bell, Madison Smartt
2005
Presents a biography of the life of eighteenth-century French scientist Antoine Lavoisier who laid the foundation for the understanding of modern chemistry.
A biography of the Polish-born scientist, focusing on her struggle to get an education, her discovery of radium and radiation, her Nobel prizes, and the marriage to her collaborator, Pierre Curie.