Beverley Birch

The case of Harry LambertThe man was plainly dying. For more than six weeks they had been fighting to save him. But now his temperature soared. He tossed and mumbled in the throes of a vicious fever, wracked by agonizing spasms and uncontrollable hiccups. And then from time to time he was drowsy,...

ForewordAt the beginning of this century a quiet, shy Polish woman made a discovery that changed the course of historyShe was Marie Curie, the discoverer of the powerful element, radium, and pioneer in the science of radioactivity Twice a Nobel Prize winner; her research was fundamental to our...