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Madame Curie : a biography / by Eve Curie ; translated by Vincent Sheean. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Da Capo series in sciencePublication details: [S.l. : Da Capo Press, (c)2001.Edition: second Da Capo Press editionDescription: xvii, 393 pages, 30. pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780306810381
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QD22.C975.M333 2001
  • QD22
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Contents:
Dark days -- Adolescence -- Vocations -- Governess -- The long wait -- The escape -- 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 -- Alone -- Successes and ordeals -- War -- Peace : holidays at Larcouest -- America -- Full bloom -- On the Ile Saint-Louis -- The laboratory -- The end of the mission.
Subject: This account of the remarkable life and astonishing mind of one of the greatest scientists of the century, written by her daughter, it remains a landmark and an inspiration for students, scientists, and young women everywhere.
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Manya -- Dark days -- Adolescence -- Vocations -- Governess -- The long wait -- The escape -- 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 -- Alone -- Successes and ordeals -- War -- Peace : holidays at Larcouest -- America -- Full bloom -- On the Ile Saint-Louis -- The laboratory -- The end of the mission.

This account of the remarkable life and astonishing mind of one of the greatest scientists of the century, written by her daughter, it remains a landmark and an inspiration for students, scientists, and young women everywhere.

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