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Brian, Denis.

The Curies : a biography of the most controversial family in science / Denis Brian. - Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2005. - ix, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

"The first full-scale biography of the Curies provides a well-rounded look at both the private and professional lives of the worlds' most gifted scientific family." "Drawing upon years of research, interviews, and correspondence with friends, family, and associates of the Curies, biographer Denis Brian provides insights into the entire Curie clan, including Pierre Curie's father and grandfather, both gifted doctors who made their own considerable contributions in the field of science." "The Curies reveals a family as deeply devoted to their work as they were to each other, risking their lives to improve the lives of countless others."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN: 9780471273912 (acidfree paper) 0471273910 (acidfree paper)

LCCN: 2005007001

Subjects--Personal Names:
Curie family.
Curie, Marie, (1867-1934)
Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chemists--Poland --Biography.
Chemists--France--Biography.
Physicists--France--Biography.

LC Class. No.: QD22.C79 / B75 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 540.92 B