The Curies : a biography of the most controversial family in science /

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

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Traces the history of the Curie family, revealing the scandals, drama, controversy, and tragedy that surrounding the world's most gifted scientific family.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Brian, Denis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2005.
Subjects:
Curie family.
Curie, Marie, > 1867-1934.
Curie, Pierre, > 1859-1906.
Curie (Famille)
Chemists > Poland > Biography.
Chemists > France > Biography.
Physicists > France > Biography.
Table of 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 Become 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 U.S. With Using Germ Warfare in Korea
  • The Curie Legacy.

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