The Curies
Subtitle: a biography of the most controversial family in science
By: Denis Brian
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780471273912
Subjects: Chemists; Physicists; Biographies; Chimistes; Physiciens; Biography
Description: Traces the history of the Curie family, revealing the scandals, drama, controversy, and tragedy that surrounding the world's most gifted scientific family.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-426) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pierre Curie; title: Marie Salomea Sklodowska; title: Pierre and Marie in Love; title: Mutual Adoration; title: Spirits, Radioactivity and the Price of Fame; title: Psychic Researchers; title: Pierre Curie's Last Day; title: Rescuing Langevin From His Wife; title: Battered by the Press; title: Surgery and Suffragettes; title: - "Little Curies" and World War I; title: A Gift of Radium From the United States; title: Radium: Miracle Cure or Menace?; title: A Great Discovery; title: At Last; title: Marie Curie's Last Year; title: Nobel Prizes, Spanish Civil War and Fission; title: France Defeated; title: Joliot Keeps the Gestapo Guessing; title: Eve Curie Tours the Battlefronts; title: Joliot Become a Communist; title: Eve Curie Interviews Nehru, Gandhi and Jinnah; title: The Battle for Paris; title: Joliot's Fight for Peace and Communism; title: Joliot launches Peace Offensive and Charges U.S. With Using Germ Warfare in Korea; title: The Curie Legacy.