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Madame Curie, a Biography by Eve Curie, Translated by Vincent Sheean 1937 Hardback

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Madame Curie, a Biography by Eve Curie, Translated by Vincent Sheean 1937 Hardback Madame Curie, a Biography by Eve Curie, Translated by Vincent Sheean 1937 Hardback Madame Curie, a Biography by Eve Curie, Translated by Vincent Sheean 1937 Hardback

SYNOPSIS:  412 pages. Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. It also spotlights her remarkable life, from her childhood in Poland, to her storybook Parisian marriage to fellow scientist Pierre Curie, to her tragic death from the very radium that brought her fame. This timeless biography celebrates an astonishing mind and a extraordinary woman’s life.

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937.

Format: Hardback. No jacket. 

Condition: VG. Brown tweed cloth boards, brown lettering. Tightly bound, pages age yellowed. Minor wear to covers. Binding split at third blank flyleaf. Owner's name written in ink on flyleaf opposite inside front cover. A blank page opposite "Chapter one" torn as illustrated in photo. Front page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with black and white photos. Exquisite, heavy volume. Photos illustrate condition.

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