Curie

by Sarah Dry, Sabine Seifert

Overview

Marie Curie made pioneering discoveries in the field of radioactivity and discovered two elements, Radium and Polonium, the latter having acquired new notority over one hundred years after Curie's discovery, when she named it in honour of her native Poland

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904341291
Publisher:	Haus Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Series:	Haus Publishing - Life &Times Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Sarah Dry won the Rona Jaffe prize for creative non-fiction at Harvard University and went on to study at the London Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and to do post-graduate research at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

	Early Years (1867-1891)	1
	Paris (1891-1897)	11
	Discovering Radium (1897-1902)	26
	Theorizing Radioactivity (1902-1906)	53
	Death and Laboratory Life (1906-1911)	70
	Scandal (1911-1914)	81
	War (1914-1918)	95
	Final Years (1919-1934)	106
	Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)	129
	Notes	151
	Chronology	154
	Further Reading	162
	Picture Sources	165
	Index	166