{"id":45446,"date":"2019-07-02T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45446"},"modified":"2019-06-30T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:52:36","slug":"marie-curie-a-life-of-discovery-by-alice-milani-translated-by-kerstin-schwandt-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/marie-curie-a-life-of-discovery-by-alice-milani-translated-by-kerstin-schwandt-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Curie: A Life of Discovery by Alice Milani, translated by Kerstin Schwandt [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45447\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Marie-Curie-Alice-Milani-BookDragon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"768\" \/>In Milani\u2019s graphic biography of the iconic Marie Curie, soon-to-be Nobel winner Ernest Rutherford explains the theory of transmutation in less than a dozen panels to Marie Curie\u2019s \u201cinterested in science\u201d daughter, Ir\u00e8ne \u2013 so young, she calls it \u201ctramputation.\u201d That transparent accessibility repeats throughout, underscoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alicemilani.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alice Milani<\/a>\u2019s remarkable ability to present complex scientific concepts to layreaders with logic and clarity.\u00a0When Milani isn\u2019t explaining in the text \u2013 fluidly translated from the original Italian by Kerstin Schwandt \u2013 she relies on atmospheric, pencil-and-watercolor art to augment the narrative of Curie\u2019s brilliant life.<\/p>\n<p>From Polish governess to University of Paris (Sorbonne) graduate in physics and mathematics to unparalleled scientist and double Nobel Prizewinner (the first woman in 1903; becoming the only Nobelist in two different sciences in 1911), Curie\u2019s tenacity resulted in both worldwide achievement and personal derision, especially as a woman pioneer in a male-controlled field. 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Additional endmatter \u2013 a detailed contextual essay co-written by Milani\u2019s scientist parents, as well as a bibliography and source notes \u2013 enhance Milani\u2019s biography, marking it for potential classroom inclusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Marie-Curie-A-Life-of-Discovery-Alice-Milani\/pid=9720553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, June 21, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Milani\u2019s graphic biography of the iconic Marie Curie, soon-to-be Nobel winner Ernest Rutherford explains the theory of transmutation in less than a dozen panels to Marie Curie\u2019s \u201cinterested in science\u201d daughter, Ir\u00e8ne \u2013 so young, she calls it \u201ctramputation.\u201d That transparent accessibility repeats throughout,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,23,73,30,60,20,6535,31],"tags":[8486,6608,6668,7631,75,10,11,149,24,123,8485,13,8487,129,39,8488],"class_list":["post-45446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography","category-european","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-middle-grade-readers","category-nonethnic-specific","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-alice-milani","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-booklist-online","tag-death","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-gender-inequality","tag-historical","tag-illness","tag-kerstin-schwandt","tag-love","tag-marie-curie","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-stem"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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