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.
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Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
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Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.
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Chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
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Chemists -- France -- Biography.
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Physicists -- France -- Biography.
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ISBN |
0471273910 (acid-free paper) |
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9780471273912 |
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