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Eve Curie: Madame Curie a Biography. 1937 Signed 1st ed

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Eve Curie: Madame Curie a Biography. 1937 Signed 1st ed

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Madame Curie. A Biography By Eve Curie. Translated by Vincent Sheean

Stated First Edition. Signed in ink by author, Eve Curie, on the front endpaper.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1937.

Hard Cover. Large 8vo 9 - 10 tall. xi, 412 pp.

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of 5 Nobel Prizes. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and the first woman entombed on her merits in the Paris Pantheon.

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Eve Curie: Madame Curie a Biography. 1937 Signed 1st ed

Name: Eve Curie: Madame Curie a Biography. 1937 Signed 1st ed
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