![]() ![]() After the birth of her first child in 1897, Curie would come home from the laboratory to breast-feed. The facts of a working woman's life in the late 19th century speak for themselves. Johnson," tells the remarkable story of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize without anachronistic editorializing. Goldsmith, whose books include "Little Gloria. What a way to treat a woman! One of the strengths of "Obsessive Genius," Barbara Goldsmith's excellent short biography of Marie Curie, is its suppression of anger. To see Marie Curie forced to sit among the audience in Stockholm while her husband, Pierre, gave the lecture following their joint receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1903 is infuriating. Feminism is one of the most distorting of lenses. OBSESSIVE GENIUS The Inner World of Marie Curie. ![]()
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