Maria Popova lists the neurologist/author's 121 favorite books, with comments like this about an event where he met Eve Curie, biographer of her mother, Marie Curie: "As I was talking I became conscious of a very old lady in the audience, with high Slavic cheekbones and a smile going from one ear to the other. I thought, 'It can’t be!' But it was — it was Eve Curie, and she signed her book for me sixty years after it was published, fifty-five years after I got it."
February 21, 2016
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