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Pierre Curie

by Marie Curie

First published: 1923
Pages: 110

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Introduction
21:59
Ch. 1: The Curie Family, Infancy and First Studies of Pierre Curie
14:49
Ch. 2: Dreams of Youth, First Scientific Work, Discovery of Piezo-Electricity
14:12
Ch. 3: Life as the Director of Laboratory Work in the School of Physics and Chemistry, Generalization of the Principle of Symmetry, Investigations of Magnetism
31:19
Ch.4: Marriage and Organization of the Family Life. Personality and Character
27:44
Ch. 5: The Dream Become a Reality. The Discovery of Radium
17:52
Ch. 6: The Struggle for Means to Work. The Burden of Celebrity. The First Assistance From the State. It Comes Too Late. Pt. 1
21:37
Ch. 6: The Struggle for Means to Work. The Burden of Celebrity. The First Assistance From the State. It Comes Too Late. Pt. 2
21:42
Ch. 7 The Nation's Sorrow. The Laboratories:"Sacred Places"
19:39
Autobiographical Notes Ch. 1
29:16
Autobiographical Notes Ch. 2
40:11
Autobiographical Notes Ch. 3
30:46
Autobiographical Notes Ch. 4
19:44

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Marie Curie was reluctant to write about her husband, and the reserve shows on every page of this short life of him. She follows Pierre from a home-schooled boyhood through the crystallography and piezoelectricity he worked on before they met, the years in the cold shed on the rue Lhomond where they isolated radium, the Nobel Prize the couple shared, and his death under a horse-drawn wagon in 1906. She is exact about the science and nearly silent about the grief, which is what gives the book its weight. The American edition also carries her own autobiographical notes, the fullest account she ever gave of her life. Free here as a PDF and EPUB.

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Marie Curie

Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish born physicist and chemist who worked in France, discovered polonium and radium with her husband Pierre, and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. She died of an illness brought on by years of radiation exposure.

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