‎CURIE (Pierre) - CURIE (Marie)‎
‎Oeuvres de Pierre (et Marie) Curie publiées par les soins de la Société Française de Physique -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1908, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane noire (reliure de l'époque), 1 portrait, 22pp., 621pp., 2 planches, figures dans le texte‎

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‎---- PREMIERE EDITION des Oeuvres de PIERRE CURIE et MARIE CURIE. Préface de Madame Pierre Curie ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "In close collaboration with his wife, P. Curie was to study radioactivity and discover polonium and radium, discoveries that made both of them famous...Many of Curie's writings were brought together in Oeuvres de Pierre Curie (Paris, 1908)". (DSB III p. 508). Heirs of Hippocrates N° 2223 : "The tragic death of Pierre Curie put an end to what was certainly one of the most famous scientific collaborations in history. Despite his abbreviated career and the fact that his work was sometimes overshadowed by that of his gifted wife, Pierre Curie must be credited with a remarkable amount of original work of extreme importance in the understanding of radioactivity and atomic structure. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with his wife and Henri Becquerel. This volume of collected writings includes works on magnetism, crystal symetry, pyroelectric phenomena and an account of the discovery of radium. The laudatory introduction by Marie Curie gives some interesting bits of family history" - Honeyman N° 791**6083/M1-7876/L6AR-7874/PLAC‎