Rosalynd pflaum biography definition

"Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and her World" is a book by a housewife and amateur historian from Minnesota that begins in rather pedestrian fashion but then gets steadily stronger as the work advances.

By the end, one understands why she received the "Legion d'Honneur" in 1974.

Rosalynd pflaum biography definition wikipedia

In this book Rosalynd Pflaum displays a remarkable grasp of French culture, politics and social attitudes as well as a great talent for explaining them to the North American public. I recommend this work to anyone interested in either the advances in nuclear science or French history in the 20th Century.

The title is highly misleading.

There is no obsession and only one quarter of the volume is devoted Mme. Marie Curie (née Skłodowska). What book does do is tell the story of how one married couple (Pierre and Marie Curie) conducted research together and how a second married couple comprise of their daughter Irène and their son-in-law Frédéric Jol