[An] excellent new book.
Robert Krulwich, NPR [A] sumptuously illustrated visual biography...Radioactive is an incisive look at science's greatest partnership.
Vogue One of the most beautiful books-as-object that I've ever seen.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love [Radioactive is] a deeply unusual and forceful thing to have in your hands. ... Read moreMs. Redniss's text is long, literate and supple...Her drawings are both vivid and ethereal...Radioactive is serious science and brisk storytelling. The word 'luminous' is a critic's cliche, to be avoided at all costs, but it fits.
New York Times Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read-part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius.
Malcolm Gladwell Absolutely dazzling. Lauren Redniss has created a book that is both vibrant history and a work of art. Like radium itself, Radioactive glows with energy.
Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Radioactive offer innumerable wonders. Colors suddenly bloom into tremendous feeling, history contracts into a pair of elongated figures locked in an embrace, then expands again in an explosive rush of words. In this wholly original book about passion and discovery Lauren Redniss has invented her own unique form.
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