Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

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Free Download Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, "Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information "
English | ISBN: 022623584X | 2015 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 746 KB
In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements―the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences―are studied by schoolchildren across the world. When, in 2009, the New Scientist carried out a poll for the "Most Inspirational Female Scientist of All Time," the result was a foregone conclusion: Marie Curie trounced her closest runner-up, Rosalind Franklin, winning double the number of Franklin's votes. She is a role model to women embarking on a career in science, the pride of two nations―Poland and France―and, not least of all, a European Union brand for excellence in science.

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