Ordinary Matter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780702262760)

In 1895 Alfred Nobel rewrote his will and left his fortune made in dynamite and munitions to generations of thinkers. Since 1901 women have been honoured with Nobel Prizes for their scientific research twenty times, including Marie Curie twice. Spanning more than a century and ranging across the world, this inventive story collection is inspired by these women whose work has altered history and saved millions of lives. From a transformative visit to the Grand Canyon to a baby washing up on a Queensland beach, a climate protest during a Paris heatwave to Stockholm on the eve of the 1977 Nobel Prize ceremony, Ordinary Matter explores the nature of ingenuity and discovery, motherhood and sacrifice, illness and legacy. Sometimes the extraordinary pivots on the ordinary.

Author: Laura Elvery
ISBN-10: 0702262765
ISBN-13: 9780702262760
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.02d