 The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science
ISBN: 978-0-471-27391-2
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448 pages
August 2005
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1. Pierre Curie.
2. Marie Salomea Sklodowska.
3. Pierre and Marie in Love.
4. Mutual Adoration.
5. Spirits, Radioactivity, and the Price of Fame.
6. Psychic Researchers.
7. Pierre Curie’s Last Day.
8. Rescuing Langevin from His Wife.
9. Battered by the Press.
10. Surgery and Suffragettes.
11. “Little Curies” and World War I.
12. A Gift of Radium from the United States.
13. Radium: Miracle Cure or Menace?
14. A Great Discovery—at Last.
15. Marie Curie’s Last Year.
16. Nobel Prizes, Spanish Civil War, and Fission.
17. France Defeated.
18. Joliot Keeps the Gestapo Guessing—Eve Curie Tours the Battlefronts.
19. Joliot Becomes a Communist—Eve Curie Interviews Nehru, Gandhi, and Jinnah.
20. The Battle for Paris.
21. Joliot’s Fight for Peace and Communism.
22. Joliot Launches Peace Offensive and Charges the United States with Using Germ Warfare in Korea.
23. The Curie Legacy.
Notes.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.
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