Madame Curie : a biography
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Madame Curie : a biography
（The Da Capo series in science）（A Da Capo paperback）
Da Capo Press, [1986] c1937
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Literary Guild of America, 1937
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Description
Marie Sklodowska Curie (18671934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911), she performed pioneering studies with radium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity. The history of her story-book marriage to Pierre Curie, of their refusal to patent their processes or otherwise profit from the commercial exploitation of radium, and her tragically ironic death are legendary and well known but are here revealed from an inside perspective. But, as this book reveals, it was also true. An astonishing mind and a remarkable life are here portrayed by Marie Curies daughter in a classic and moving account.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Part One Manya Dark Days Adolescence Vocations Governess The Long Wait The Escape * Part Two Paris Forty Rubles a Month Pierre Curie A Young Couple The Discovery of Radium Four Years in a Shed A Hard Life A Doctors ThesisAnd Five Minutes Talk The Enemy Every Day April 19, 1996 * Part Three Alone Successes and Ordeals War PeaceHolidays at Larcoust America Full Bloom On the le Saint-Louis The Laboratory The End of the Mission
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