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Half life : a novel / Jillian Cantor.

by Cantor, Jillian.

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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Fiction.

Married women -- Fiction.

Chemists -- Fiction.

9780062969873 (hc.)

381, 12 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bonus section of insights, interviews, and more.

"In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.But what if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie? "--Dust jacket.

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