Madame Curie by Curie Eve - 1938

Garden City , New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. the jacket has some tears and chips reinforced with invisible tape. ; Translated by Vincent Sheean. Frontis portrait Marie Curie made in 1929. Interior is clean with the exceptionof previous owner's name inked on ffep. 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. ; Photographs B & W.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 412 pages .