Marie Curie: A Life

Susan Quinn's 1995 biography follows Marie Curie from her girlhood in Russian-ruled Warsaw, where she studied in a clandestine university, to her scientific career in Paris. Quinn draws on Curie's diaries and letters to recount her partnership with Pierre Curie and their discovery of polonium and radium. She also covers Curie's widowhood, the public scandal over her love affair with physicist Paul Langevin and her work during World War I.

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