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Madame Curie : a biography / by Eve Curie, translated by Vincent Sheean.

By: Curie, Eve, 1904-2007.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: A Da Capo paperback.Da Capo series in science: Publisher: New York : Da Capo Press, [1986] 1937Description: xi, 393 p., [30] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0306802813 .Subject(s): Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 | Chemists -- Poland -- Biography | Women chemists -- Poland -- BiographyDDC classification: 530.924
Contents:
Part one -- Introduction -- 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 doctor's thesis-and five minutes talk -- The enemy -- Every day -- April 19, 1906 -- Part three -- Alone -- Success and ordeals -- War -- Peace - holidays at Larcouest -- America -- Full bloom -- On the Isle Saint-Louis -- The laboratory -- The end of the mission.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 530.924 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00037912
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) 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 Curie's daughter in a classic and moving account.

Part one -- Introduction -- 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 doctor's thesis-and five minutes talk -- The enemy -- Every day -- April 19, 1906 -- Part three -- Alone -- Success and ordeals -- War -- Peace - holidays at Larcouest -- America -- Full bloom -- On the Isle Saint-Louis -- The laboratory -- The end of the mission.

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