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The Curies : a biography of the most controversial family in science
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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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- Creator
- Denis Brian
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0471273910, 9780471273912
- OCLC
- ocm58468388
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-426) and index.
- 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