Pierre Curie
by Marie Curie
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About this eBook
- Author
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
- Original Publication
- United States: The Macmillan Company,1923.
- Credits
- Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QD: Science: Chemistry
- Subject
- Chemists -- France -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69617
- Release Date
- December 23, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PIERRE CURIE — BY
- 2.MARIE CURIE — CHARLOTTE AND VERNON KELLOGG — WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. WILLIAM BROWN MELONEY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY MARIE CURIE — ILLUSTRATED — NEW YORK — THE MACMILLAN COMPANY — 1923 — TRANSLATORS' NOTE — PREFACE — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — PIERRE CURIE — THE LIFE STORY OF PIERRE CURIE — INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER I THE CURIE FAMILY. INFANCY AND FIRST STUDIES OF PIERRE CURIE — CHAPTER II DREAMS OF YOUTH. FIRST SCIENTIFIC WORK. DISCOVERY OF PIEZO-ELECTRICITY — CHAPTER III LIFE AS THE DIRECTOR OF LABORATORY WORK IN THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. GENERALIZATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SYMMETRY. INVESTIGATIONS OF MAGNETISM — CHAPTER IV MARRIAGE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE FAMILY LIFE. PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER — CHAPTER V THE DREAM BECOME A REALITY. THE DISCOVERY OF RADIUM — CHAPTER VI THE STRUGGLE FOR MEANS TO WORK. THE BURDEN OF CELEBRITY. THE FIRST ASSISTANCE FROM THE STATE. IT COMES TOO LATE — CHAPTER VII THE NATION'S SORROW. THE LABORATORIES: "SACRED PLACES" — AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES—MARIE CURIE — CHAPTER I — CHAPTER II — CHAPTER III — CHAPTER IV — A VISIT TO AMERICA
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