Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, (Paperback)

from -Cee-

This is a uniquely creative graphic biography that will grab your attention...fast! Even if you have never tried this format before, you really should give this book a chance to WOW you. The artwork is bewitching; the format exciting. And, oh! the colors... You can't help but be swept away into a...

from jasonli

"Radioactive" chronicles the life and death, loves and discoveries of esteemed scientists Marie Curie. Full of quotes, historical photographs and demure illustrations, Redniss weaves together a remarkable tale that touches upon many themes: most importantly, the quiet tragedies wrought by radioac...

from DetailMuse

In Radioactive, Lauren Redniss uses art (primarily illustrations created through a process of “cyanotype printing” that evokes negative images and glowing radiation) to present a biography of Marie Curie ... and of radiation itself, from Roentgen to Hiroshima to Spider-man. Even the words are ar...

from msf59

I had heard the name Marie Curie, but I did not know much about this pioneering scientist. Wow, what an eye-opener. She was born in Poland in 1867 and moved to Paris in 1891, to study science at the University of Paris. A couple years later, she meets Pierre Curie, an instructor at the School of ...

from phebj

I've been dragging my feet on writing this review because I know I can't do the book justice. It's the tenth book I've read in graphic form and absolutely the best so far. Technically, it's a biography of Marie and Pierre Curie but Marie is clearly the star of the story. When the author interview...