Marie & Pierre Curie
by Lauren Redniss
Recommended by Laura Helmuth
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Radioactive is the visual journey into the life of Marie Curie, as told through the dazzling collage style of acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss. A brilliant visual storyteller, Redniss has handdesigned more than 100 color collages to tell Curie?s story, fascinating in its scientific significance and its sometimes whimsical, sometimes haun...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Biographies, Comics, and Science.
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Laura Helmuth
“Also, if you haven't read it yet, the book "Radioactive" by Lauren Redniss is amazing & the cover ~glows~ ~in~ ~the~ ~dark~”
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