The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore Book Review
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date May 2, 2017 The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium and their brave struggle for justice… As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls”…
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict Published October 18th 2016 The lowdown from Goodreads A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the greatest scientists in history. What secrets may have lurked in the shadows of Albert Einstein’s fame? His first wife, Mileva “Mitza” Marić, was more than the devoted mother of their three children—she was also a brilliant physicist in her own right, and her contributions to the special theory of relativity have been hotly debated for more than a century. In 1896, the extraordinarily gifted Mileva is the only woman studying physics at an elite school in Zürich. There, she falls…
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