Marie Curie
Subtitle: a biography
By: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781616142162
Subjects: Chemists; Women chemists; Physicists; Biography; Women physicists
Notes: Reprint. First published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early life and education; title: Preparing for the future; title: Paris and the Sorbonne; title: Pierre and Marie; title: The discovery of radium: a scientific breakthrough; title: A year of contrasts: good news, bad news; title: "Pierre is dead? dead? absolutely dead?"; title: Scandal!; title: The second Nobel prize, its aftermath, and War; title: Marie and the United States of America; title: Last years.