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An edition of Madame Curie (1937)

Madame Curie

a biography

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Curie was twice winner of the Nobel Prize, the greatest of all women scientists, and the discoverer of radium.

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Doubleday, Doran
Language
English
Pages
412

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Readers Biographies Women chemists Radium Women scientists Women Nobel Prize winners Chemists Curie, Marie (Sk odowska) 1867-1934 Curie, Marie (Sklodowska), 1867-1934 French language Physicists Natuurkundigen Chemistry Physics Biography History Curie, marie, 1867-1934 Poland, biography Biografias De Cientistas Biographies as Topic Women physicists

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Marie Curie (1867-1934) Marie (Skłodowska) Curie (1867-1934)

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Table of Contents

Part One
Introduction
Page ix
Chapter I. Manya
Page 3
Chapter II. Dark Days
Page 17
Chapter III. Adolescence
Page 30
Chapter IV. Vocations
Page 47
Chapter V. Governess
Page 60
Chapter VI. The Long Wait
Page 70
Chapter VII. The Escape
Page 81
Part Two
Chapter VIII. Paris
Page 93
Chapter IX. Forty Rubles a Month
Page 105
Chapter X. Pierre Curie
Page 119
Chapter XI. A Young Couple
Page 138
Chapter XII. The Discovery of Radium
Page 152
Chapter XIII. Four Years in a Shed
Page 165
Chapter XIV. A Hard Life
Page 178
Chapter XV. A Doctor's Thesis—And Five Minutes' Talk
Page 193
Chapter XVI. The Enemy
Page 206
Chapter XVII. Every Day
Page 223
Chapter XVIII. April 19, 1906
Page 243
Part Three
Chapter XIX. Alone
Page 263
Chapter XX. Successes and Ordeals
Page 274
Chapter XXI. War
Page 289
Chapter XXII. Peace-Holidays at Larcouëst
Page 308
Chapter XXIII. America
Page 322
Chapter XXIV. Full Bloom
Page 337
Chapter XXV. On the Île Saint-Louis
Page 349
Chapter XXVI. The Laboratory
Page 361
Chapter XXVII. The End of the Mission
Page 376
Appendix
Page 387
Index
Page 395

Edition Notes

Published in
Garden City, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
925.4
Library of Congress
QD22.C8 C85 1938a

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 412 p.
Number of pages
412

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6040407M
Internet Archive
madamecurie0000unse
LCCN
48033311
OCLC/WorldCat
2206261, 14752860
LibraryThing
33688

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1439437W

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First Sentence

"DEEP SILENCE INVADED the school building in Novolipki Street on Sundays."

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This story was published serially under the title Marie Curie, my mother ; p. [1].

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