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Madame Curie A Biography By Eve Curie
Author: Vincent Sheean

MADAME CURIE A BIOGRAPHY BY EVE CURIE TRANSLATED BY VINCENT SHEEAN ILLUSTRATED DOUBLED AY COMPANY, INC. Garden City, New York MADAME CURIE A Biography MARIE CURIE A Portrait Made in 1929. Blanche de loner COPYRIGHT, 1937 BY DOUBLEDAY COMPANY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents CHAPTER PAGE PART ONE INTRODUC... more »TION t I MANYA 3 II DARK DAYS ij III ADOLESCENCE 30 IV VOCATIONS 47 V GOVERNESS 6b VI THE LONG WAIT 70 VII THE ESCAPE 81 PART TWO VIII PARIS 93 IX FORTY RUBLES A MONTH 105 X PIERRE CURIE 119 XI A YOUNG COUPLE 138 XII THE DISCOVERY OF RADIUM . ... 152 XIII FOUR YEARS IN A SHED 165 6120010 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XIV A. HARD LIFE i 8 XV A DOCTORS THESIS AND FIVE MINUTES TALK 93 XVI THE ENEMY 206 XVII EVERY DAY 5 XVIII APRIL 19, 1906 243 PART THREE XIX ALONE . 263 XX SUCCESSES AND ORDEALS 274 XXI WAR 28 XXII PEACE HOLIDAYS AT LARCOUEST . . 306 XXIII AMERICA 322 XXIV FULL BLOOM 337 XXV ON THE ILE SAINT-LOUIS 349 XXVI THE LABORATORY 3 XXVII THE END OF THE MISSION 37 APPENDIX 387 INDEX 3 Illustrations Marie Curie Frontispiece FACING PAG Mme Sklodovska, Marie Curies Mother 20 The Sklodovski Children 21 The House in Which Marie Curie, then Many a Sklodovska, Taught as a Governess 52 M. SkJodovski and His Three Daughters 53 The Two Positivists 84 The Diploma o the Second Nobel Prize Award Made to Mme Curie in 1911 85 A Page from Manya Sklodovskas Private Notebook, Written in 1885 85 The Curie Family 116 Pierre Curie, as He Appeared Lecturing to His Classes in 1906 . . 117 Two Views of the Shed at the School of Physics on the Rue Lhomond Where Radium Was Discovered 148 Pages from Marie Curies Work Books, 1897-1898 149 Henri Becquerel, the First Scientist to Observe the Phenomenon of Radioactivity 180 Pierre and Marie Curie with the Bicycles on Which They Roamed the Roads of France Together 181 Marie and Pierre Curie with Their Daughter, Irene, in 1904 . . 212 viii ILLUSTRATIONS Marie Curie and Her Two Daughters, Eve and Irene, in 1908 . . 213 Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and Their Daughter, Irene, in the Garden of the House on Boulevard Kellermann, 1904 . . . 244 Marie Curie in Her Laboratory, 1912 245 Marie Curie with Her Two Sisters, Mme Szalay and Mme Dluska, and Her Brother M. Sklodovski, Photographed in Warsaw in 1912 276 Mme Curie in Her Laboratory, in 1912 277 Marie Curie at the Wheel of the Famous Renault Car Converted into a Radiological Unit 292 Marie Curies Favorite Portrait of Her Husband 293 The Radium Institute at Warsaw 308 The Radium Institute at Paris 308 Mme Curie, Irene Curie and Pupils from the American Expedi tionary Corps, at the Institute of Radium in Paris 309 Marie Curie with Dean Pegram, Dean of the School of Engineer ing at Columbia University, 1921 324 Marie Curie Discussing a Scientific Problem at Pittsburgh During Her American Tour 325 Marie Curie and President Harding During Her Tour of the United States in 1921 340 Mme Curie in Her Office at the Radium Institute in Paris, 1925 . 341 A Group Photograph Made at the Institute of Radium in Paris . 356 Mme Curie and Her Daughter, Irene, 1925 357 Marie Curie in 1931, Three Years before Her Death 372 The Curie Family Tomb, in the Cemetery at Sceaux 373 Introduction T J. . H H E LIFE OF MARIE CURIE contains prodigies in such number that one would li e to tell her story li e a legend. She was a woman she belonged to an oppressed nation she was poor she was beautiful. A powerful vocation summoned her from her motherland, Poland, to study in Paris, where she lived through years of poverty and solitude. There she met a man whose genius was afyn to hers. She married him their happiness was unique. By the most desperate and arid effort they discovered a magic element, radium. This discovery not only gave birth to a new science and a new philosophy it provided mankind with the means of treating a dreadful disease...

ISBN-13: 9781406732467
ISBN-10: 140673246X
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 460
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