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Item Details
| Title:
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MARIE CURIE
A LIFE |
| By: |
Francoise Giroud, Lydia Davis (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£37.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0841909776 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780841909779 |
| Publisher: |
HOLMES & MEIER PUBLISHERS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1986 |
| Pages: |
292 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Marie Curie is well-known for her Nobel Prize-winning research in physics and chemistry and for her discovery with husband Pierre of polonium and radium. Less familiar is the complex character of this renowned woman. This book provides a fresh human perspective on the life of this famous yet enigmatic precursor of atomic scientists. |
| Synopsis: |
Perhaps the most illustrious women of her era, Marie Curie is well-known for her Nobel Prize-winning research in physics and chemistry and for her discovery with husband Pierre of polonium and radium. Less familiar is the complex character of this renowned woman. While grounding her work in a historical context, the author provides a fresh human perspective on the life of this famous yet enigmatic precursor of today's atomic scientists. |
| Illustrations: |
b/w photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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