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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. New York: The Macmillan Company, First American Edition, First Printing, 1923. Stated Copyright, 1923, By Marie Curie. Navy cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine/DJ very good, clean, shows some shelfwear at top and bottom, some small tears at both, back and front, spine corners lower corners. not clipped, price $2.25.. Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg. Scientist Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win the award in two different fields - physics and chemistry. Marie and Pierre Curie were dedicated scientists and completely devoted to one another. At first, they worked on separate projects. She was fascinated with the work of Henri Becquerel, a French physicist who discovered that uranium casts off rays, weaker rays than the X-rays found by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Curie took Becquerel's work a few steps further, conducting her own experiments on uranium rays. She discovered that the…

About Pierre Curie

A biography of Pierre Curie, co-written by Marie Curie.