Reluctant heroine
Subtitle: the life and work of Hélène Duhem
By: Stanley L. Jaki.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scottish Academic Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Duhem, Hélène -- Biography -- Family; Duhem, Pierre, -- 1861-1916 -- Biography -- Family; Duhem, Hélène -- Biography -- Family; Duhem, Pierre, -- 1861-1916 -- Biography -- Family; Publishers and publishing -- France -- Biography; Physicists -- France -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Child Helene; title: Young adult; title: From one shock to another; title: A new purpose in life; title: Portrait by a daughter; title: Portrait of a publisher; title: Victory snatched by war; title: Victory at long last; title: A long sunset; title: Appendix : How was Pierre Duhem's Systeme du Monde published? Fragments of a correspondence collected, with a foreword, by Helene Duhem