"In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist……" — Siddhartha Mukherjee
"In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism."
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41 Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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