MADAME CURIE A BIOGRAPHY BY EVE CURIE TRANSLATED BY VINCENT SHEEAN
ILLUSTRATED DOUBLED AY COMPANY, INC. Garden City, New York MADAME
CURIE A Biography MARIE CURIE A Portrait Made in 1929. Blanche de
loner COPYRIGHT, 1937 BY DOUBLEDAY COMPANY, INC. ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents CHAPTER
PAGE PART ONE INTRODUCTION t I MANYA 3 II DARK DAYS ij III
ADOLESCENCE 30 IV VOCATIONS 47 V GOVERNESS 6b VI THE LONG WAIT 70
VII THE ESCAPE 81 PART TWO VIII PARIS 93 IX FORTY RUBLES A MONTH
105 X PIERRE CURIE 119 XI A YOUNG COUPLE 138 XII THE DISCOVERY OF
RADIUM . ... 152 XIII FOUR YEARS IN A SHED 165 6120010 CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE XIV A. HARD LIFE i 8 XV A DOCTORS THESIS AND FIVE
MINUTES TALK 93 XVI THE ENEMY 206 XVII EVERY DAY 5 XVIII APRIL 19,
1906 243 PART THREE XIX ALONE . 263 XX SUCCESSES AND ORDEALS 274
XXI WAR 28 XXII PEACE HOLIDAYS AT LARCOUEST . . 306 XXIII AMERICA
322 XXIV FULL BLOOM 337 XXV ON THE ILE SAINT-LOUIS 349 XXVI THE
LABORATORY 3 XXVII THE END OF THE MISSION 37 APPENDIX 387 INDEX 3
Illustrations Marie Curie Frontispiece FACING PAG Mme Sklodovska,
Marie Curies Mother 20 The Sklodovski Children 21 The House in
Which Marie Curie, then Many a Sklodovska, Taught as a Governess 52
M. SkJodovski and His Three Daughters 53 The Two Positivists 84 The
Diploma o the Second Nobel Prize Award Made to Mme Curie in 1911 85
A Page from Manya Sklodovskas Private Notebook, Written in 1885 85
The Curie Family 116 Pierre Curie, as He Appeared Lecturing to His
Classes in 1906 . . 117 Two Views of the Shed at the School of
Physics on the Rue Lhomond Where Radium Was Discovered 148 Pages
from Marie Curies Work Books, 1897-1898 149 Henri Becquerel, the
First Scientist toObserve the Phenomenon of Radioactivity 180
Pierre and Marie Curie with the Bicycles on Which They Roamed the
Roads of France Together 181 Marie and Pierre Curie with Their
Daughter, Irene, in 1904 . . 212 viii ILLUSTRATIONS Marie Curie and
Her Two Daughters, Eve and Irene, in 1908 . . 213 Marie Curie and
Pierre Curie and Their Daughter, Irene, in the Garden of the House
on Boulevard Kellermann, 1904 . . . 244 Marie Curie in Her
Laboratory, 1912 245 Marie Curie with Her Two Sisters, Mme Szalay
and Mme Dluska, and Her Brother M. Sklodovski, Photographed in
Warsaw in 1912 276 Mme Curie in Her Laboratory, in 1912 277 Marie
Curie at the Wheel of the Famous Renault Car Converted into a
Radiological Unit 292 Marie Curies Favorite Portrait of Her Husband
293 The Radium Institute at Warsaw 308 The Radium Institute at
Paris 308 Mme Curie, Irene Curie and Pupils from the American
Expedi tionary Corps, at the Institute of Radium in Paris 309 Marie
Curie with Dean Pegram, Dean of the School of Engineer ing at
Columbia University, 1921 324 Marie Curie Discussing a Scientific
Problem at Pittsburgh During Her American Tour 325 Marie Curie and
President Harding During Her Tour of the United States in 1921 340
Mme Curie in Her Office at the Radium Institute in Paris, 1925 .
341 A Group Photograph Made at the Institute of Radium in Paris .
356 Mme Curie and Her Daughter, Irene, 1925 357 Marie Curie in
1931, Three Years before Her Death 372 The Curie Family Tomb, in
the Cemetery at Sceaux 373 Introduction T J. . H H E LIFE OF MARIE
CURIE contains prodigies in such number that one would li e to tell
her story li e a legend. She was a woman she belonged to an
oppressed nation she was poor she was beautiful.A powerful vocation
summoned her from her motherland, Poland, to study in Paris, where
she lived through years of poverty and solitude. There she met a
man whose genius was afyn to hers. She married him their happiness
was unique. By the most desperate and arid effort they discovered a
magic element, radium. This discovery not only gave birth to a new
science and a new philosophy it provided mankind with the means of
treating a dreadful disease...
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