Making Marie Curie
Subtitle: intellectual property and celebrity culture in an age of information
By: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Series: Science.culture; Science.culture
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780226235844
Subjects: Intellectual property; Women chemists; Women in science; Celebrities; History
Description: This unconventional biography of Marie Curie explores the emergence of the "Curie persona," the information culture of the period that shaped its development, and the strategies Curie herself used to manage and exploit her intellectual property.--Adapted from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Me, myself, I: in the interest of disinterestedness; title: Scandal, slander, and science: surviving 1911; title: The gift(s) that kept on giving: circulating radium and Curie; title: Intellectuals of the world, unite! Curie and the League of Nations; title: Epilogue.