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Title Half life [large print] : a novel / Jillian Cantor.
Author Cantor, Jillian, author.
Publisher New York, NY : Harper Large Print, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description 515 pages ; 23 cm
Edition First Harper Large Print edition.
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Summary "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.
Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Fiction.
Married women -- Poland -- Fiction.
Women chemists -- Poland -- Fiction.
Women chemists -- France -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Large print books.
ISBN 9780063063105
0063063107