12.22.2004 00:52

Obsessive genius


John Batchelor is interviewing Barbara Goldsmith right now. Goldsmith has a new book out, Obsessive Genius, The Inner World of Marie Curie.

Madame Curie's notes were sealed for years, since they were radioactive, and when researchers wanted access, they'd have to sign a medical release.

I'll have to get Netflix send me the Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson movie. Wake County doesn't have the book in its search database.

Umm. Goldsmith mispronounces the Anglicized name of the Wisla River: it's vis-TOO-la.