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Author Brian, Denis.

Title The Curies : a biography of the most controversial family in science / Denis Brian.

Publication Info. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CURIE    DUE 04-15-24
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CURIE FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO CURIE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  920 BRIAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 CURIE FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG CURIE FAMILY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B CURIE FAMILY B    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG CURIE FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-CURIE    Check Shelf
Description ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-426) and index.
Contents Pierre Curie -- Marie Salomea Sklodowska -- Pierre and Marie in love -- Mutual adoration -- Spirits, radioactivity, and the price of fame -- Psychic researchers -- Pierre Curie's last day -- Rescuing Langevin from his wife -- Battered by the press -- Surgery and Suffragettes -- "Little Curies" and World War I -- A gift of radium from the United States -- Radium: miracle cure or menace? -- A great discovery - at last -- Marie Curie's last year -- Nobel prizes, Spanish Civil War and Fission -- France defeated -- Joliot keeps the Gestapo guessing - Eve Curie tours the battlefronts -- Joliot becomes a communist - Eve Curie interviews Nehru, Gandhi, and Jinnah -- The battle for Paris -- Joliot's fight for peace and communism -- Joliot launches peace offensive and charges the United States with using germ warfare in Korea -- The Curie legacy.
Subject Curie family.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.
Chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
Chemists -- France -- Biography.
Physicists -- France -- Biography.
ISBN 0471273910 (acid-free paper)
9780471273912
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