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‎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

‎---- 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

‎Madame Curie.‎

‎ Gallimard, 1949, in-8°, 348 pp, un portrait photographique de Marie Curie en frontispice, broché, bon état‎

‎Remarquable biographie de Marie Curie, au succès colossal. Eve Curie (1904-2007), fille de Pierre et Marie Curie, fut pianiste, puis femme de lettres et diplomate. — "On a scrupule à parler de Marie et de Pierre Curie, après Mme Eve Curie, dont l'admirable livre est universellement connu." (Etienne Dennery, administrateur général de la Bibliothèque Nationale, dans la préface du Catalogue d'exposition Pierre et Marie Curie, p. VII, 1967) — "Il faut lire le très beau livre écrit par Eve Curie sur sa mère." (André Damany, “Pierre Curie, Frédéric Joliot-Curie”, p. 63, 2006) ‎

‎Propriétés Magnétiques des Corps a diverses Températures.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1895. Bound with the original printed wrappers to all 4 issues (8 wrappers) in contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of titlepage.In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 7me Series - Tome V. 576 pp. The entire volume offered. Curie's paper: pp. 289-405, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing (it was also issued the same year in Comptes Rendu) of Pierre Curie's famous doctoral dissertation in which he shows that when the temperature of a magnet is increased there is a level at which the magnetism is disrupted and ceases to exist, the temperature here is called the ""Curie Point"" and he further shows that Paramagnetism is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature, which is ""Curie's Law"". ""A little later Paul Langevin, who had been Curie's student at the 'Ecole de Physique et Chimie', proposed a theory that satisfied these facts (the facts expressed in the tqo laws) by postulating a thermal excitation of the atoms in the phenomena of magnetization.. Curie's experimental laws and a quantum mechanical version of Langevin's theory still constitute the basis of modern theories of magnetism.""(DSB III, p. 506).‎

‎Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active dans la pechblende. Note de M.P. Curie et de Mme S. Curie, préséntée par M. Becquerel. (And) Sur une nouvelle substance fortement radio-active, contenue dans le pechblende. Note de M.P. Curie, de Mme P. Curie et... - [RADIUM & POLONIUM DISCOVERED.]‎

‎Paris, (1898). 4to. Uncut and unopened in marbled covers. Kept in a full cloth-box. Large copy, printed on better paper. pp. 175-178 and pp. 1215-17 and p. 1218 in: ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Academie des Sciences"" tome 127 No 3 and No 26 (comprising pp. 143-207 (no. 3) and pp. 1211-1218 (of No 26)).‎

‎First editions of the announcements of the discoveries of the 2 elements Polonium and Radium.""Inspired by the research of Becquerel (her teacher and friend) in radioactivity, Mme. Curie and her husband Pierre, worked in the laboratories of the Sorbonne upon uranium and thorium. They also observed that certain substances exhibited much greater radioactivity than the amount of these substances indicated. Further investigation led to the discovery of a new element, polonium, in pitchblende from Bohemia. In december 1898, it was disclosed that compounds of barium extracted from pitchblende contained a new radioactive substance a million times more active than that of the uranium of Becquerel"" it was named ""radium"". From several tons of pitchblende, they were able to extract a decigram of pure radium in 1902, and determined its atomic weight at 225. In the following year the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel and the Curies."" (Bernt Dibner). In the last paper Eugene Demarcay spectroscopically examines the substance for the Curies and confirms the existence of a previously unknown element. - Garrison & Morton No 2003 (describing the use of radium in medicine) - Dibner no. 164 (the note) - Norman No 545 (sale no 994) - Grolier Medicine No 84 B.‎

‎1- Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active contenue dans la pechblende. Note de M. P. Curie et de Mme S. Curie, présentée par M. Becquerel. 2- Sur une nouvelle substance fortement radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende (), présentée par M. Becquerel. 3- Sur le spectre d'une substance radio-active. Note de M. Eug. Demarçay.‎

‎ 2 volumes in-4 (270 x 210 mm), demi-percaline noire à la Bradel, titre doré, tranches mouchetées (rel. moderne), 1302 p. (BEL EXEMPLAIRE). Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898.‎

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‎Premières éditions des annonces des découvertes historiques des deux éléments Polonium et Radium et de l'avancement de leurs travaux, par Pierre et Marie Curie, publiés dans les "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences", tome 127, juillet-décembre 1898.Les textes en question se trouvent aux pages 175-178, 1215-1217 et 1218.Après avoir signalé que deux minerais d'uranium sont beaucoup plus actifs que l'uranium lui-même (premier article, juillet 1898), les Curie parviennent à isoler deux nouvelles substances "radioactives", le polonium, du nom du pays natal de Marie, et le radium (deuxième article, décembre 1898, présentés par H. Becquerel).L'existence du radium est immédiatement confirmée par mesure spectrale, par Eugène Demarçay, (décembre 1898, p.1218). "Le 26 décembre 1898, Pierre Curie et sa femme Marie, née Sklodowska, annoncent devant l'Académie de Médecine qu'ils ont pu isoler un élément fortement radioactif jusque-là inconnu. Ils ont pour cela traité, au prix d'un travail épuisant, d'importantes quantités d'un minerai extrait des mines d'argent de Bohême appelé pechblende ("minerai de malheur" en allemand ; on en comprend aujourd'hui la raison). La découverte de cet élément qu'ils ont baptisé radium vient après celle d'un autre élément moins radioactif et lui aussi présent dans la pechblende, que le couple a baptisé polonium en l'honneur du pays natal de Marie. Pierre et Marie Curie attestent ainsi de l'existence d'un rayonnement propre à certains éléments naturels et qu'ils baptisent radioactivité" (Hérodote, en ligne).(DSB, III, p. 498-499. Garrison & Morton, 2003. Grolier, 'One hundred books famous in medicine', 84B. Haskell Norman Library, 545).Bel exemplaire, grand de marges, très frais, bien relié, parfaitement conservé. ‎

‎Rayons émis par les composés de l'uranium et de thorium. Presentée par M. Lippmann. Séance du Mardi 12 Avril 1898).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103.‎

‎First printing of this milestone paper, being the first ""Note"" from Marie Curie about ""radioactivity"". This same ""Note"" contains a the fundamental observation: ""Two uranium ores... are much more active than uranium itself. This fact... leads one to believe that these ores may contain an element much more active than uranium."" This paper gives the first proof of the fact that radiation is an atomic property.""Henri Becquerel, discovered (1896) that uranium salts shielded from light for several months spontaneously emit rays related in their effects to Roentgen rays. Mme. Curie became enthusiastic about this subject filled with the unknown and, as she later acknowledged, involving no bibliographic research.The first step in the research was to determine whether there existed other elements capable, like uranium, of emitting radiation. Abandoning the idea of hyperfluorescence, couldn’t one calculate by electrical measurement the effects on the conductivity of air that were revealed by the gold-leaf electroscope? Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques had constructed an extremely sensitive apparatus to measure weak currents"" Mme. Curie employed it in testing both pure substances and various ores. In her first ""Note"" in the Comptes rendus""de l Académie des sciences (12 April 1898) she described the method that she followed throughout her life, the method that enabled her to make comparisons through time and crosschecks with other techniques:""I employed... a plate condenser, one of the plates being covered with a uniform layer of uranium or of another finely pulverized substance [(diameter of the plates, eight centimeters"" distance between them, three centimeters). A potential difference of 100 volts was established between the plates.]. The current that traversed the condenser was measured in absolute value by means of an electrometer and a piezoelectric quartz. In general she preferred the zero method, in which the operator compensates for the current created by the active material by manipulating the quartz. All of her students followed this procedure.""(DSB).The first results came in 1898: the measurements varied between 83 × 10-12 amperes for pitch blende to less than 0.3 × 10-12 for almost inactive salts, passing through 53 × 10-12 for thorium oxide and for chalcolite (double phosphate of uranium and copper). Thorium would thus be ""radioactive"" (the term is Mme. Curie’s" its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, independently, by Schmidt in Germany. ‎

‎Sur la radio-activité des sels de radium. (+) Sur la radio-activité provoquée par des sels de radium. (These 2 with Debierne). (+) Sur la constante de temps caractéristique de la disparition de la radioactivité induite par leradium dansune enceinte fe...‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 133, No 5 and No 23. Pp. (969-) 1044 and pp. (909-) 966. The papers: pp. 276-279 + pp. 931-934 (both from vol. 133, and entire issues offered) + Tome 135, No 20. Pp. (821-) 880. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 857-59. + Tome 136, No 4. Pp. (181-) 262. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 223-226.‎

‎First printing of these four papers, constituting a revolution in time measuring, as Pierre Curie here defined a STANDARD FOR THE ABSOLUTE MEASURING OF TIME ON THE BASIS OF RADIOACTIVITY, and hereby departing from the relative measurements in geology and archaeology.After the discovery of Polonium and Actinium (1898 a. 1899 ) further discoveries followed. ""First came the announcement in 1899 by Marie Curie of induced radioactivity, brought about by the action of polonium or radium on inactive substances. The induced radioactivity persisted over a considerable period of time, a phenomenon of great concern to Pierre Curie. He took up the question with Debierne, with whom he published two papers in 1901(the first two papers offered)"" their experiments could be explained by Rutherford’s theory of emanation (radon), a radioactive gas emitted by radium. With J. Danne, Curie measured the diffusion coefficient of radium emanation in the air and proved, as Rutherford had done, that it liquefies at - 150°C. In order to clarify the nature of the emanation he studied the law of diminution of the activity of a solid after having removed it from a chamber in which a radium salt was present. In two notes presented to the Academy on 17 November 1902 and 26 January 1903 (the third and fourth papers offered), Curie showed that this activity diminishes according to an exponential law characterized by a time constant that, for the emanation, is equal to 5,752 days, regardless of the conditions of the experiment. The importance of this discovery, which marks the point of departure for all modern measurements of archaeological and geological dating, did not escape his, for at a meeting of the Société Française de Physidque in 1902 he defined a standard for the absolute measurement of time on the basis of radioactivity. Almost immediately Rutherford and Soddy showed that the exponential diminution was caused by the transmutation of radioactive elements."" (DSB. Pierre Curie).‎

‎Rayons émis par les composés de l'uranium et de thorium. Presentée par M. Lippmann. Séance du Mardi 12 Avril 1898).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103. Clean and fine. A punched stamp in lower margin of title-page.‎

‎First printing of this milestone paper, being the first ""Note"" from Marie Curie about ""radioactivity"". This same ""Note"" contains a the fundamental observation: ""Two uranium ores... are much more active than uranium itself. This fact... leads one to believe that these ores may contain an element much more active than uranium."" This paper gives the first proof of the fact that radiation is an atomic property.""Henri Becquerel, discovered (1896) that uranium salts shielded from light for several months spontaneously emit rays related in their effects to Roentgen rays. Mme. Curie became enthusiastic about this subject filled with the unknown and, as she later acknowledged, involving no bibliographic research.The first step in the research was to determine whether there existed other elements capable, like uranium, of emitting radiation. Abandoning the idea of hyperfluorescence, couldn’t one calculate by electrical measurement the effects on the conductivity of air that were revealed by the gold-leaf electroscope? Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques had constructed an extremely sensitive apparatus to measure weak currents"" Mme. Curie employed it in testing both pure substances and various ores. In her first ""Note"" in the Comptes rendus""de l Académie des sciences (12 April 1898) she described the method that she followed throughout her life, the method that enabled her to make comparisons through time and crosschecks with other techniques:""I employed... a plate condenser, one of the plates being covered with a uniform layer of uranium or of another finely pulverized substance [(diameter of the plates, eight centimeters"" distance between them, three centimeters). A potential difference of 100 volts was established between the plates.]. The current that traversed the condenser was measured in absolute value by means of an electrometer and a piezoelectric quartz. In general she preferred the zero method, in which the operator compensates for the current created by the active material by manipulating the quartz. All of her students followed this procedure.""(DSB).The first results came in 1898: the measurements varied between 83 × 10-12 amperes for pitch blende to less than 0.3 × 10-12 for almost inactive salts, passing through 53 × 10-12 for thorium oxide and for chalcolite (double phosphate of uranium and copper). Thorium would thus be ""radioactive"" (the term is Mme. Curie’s" its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, independently, by Schmidt in Germany. ‎

‎Rapports présentés au congrès international de physique réuni à Paris en 1900 sous les auspices de la Société française de physique -- Tome 1 : Questions générales. Métrologie. Physique mécanique. Physique moléculaire - Tome 2 : Optique. Electricité. Magnétisme -- Tome 3 : Electro-optique et ionisation. Applications. Physique cosmique. Physique biologique -- Tome 4 : Procés-verbaux. Annexes. Liste des membres -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- 4 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET) ---- COMMUNICATIONS PAR Henry POINCARE, LORENTZ, Henry BECQUEREL, Pierre CURIE et Marie CURIE, J.J. THOMSON, DRUDE, , BRANLY, VAN'T HOFF, Jean PERRIN, A. CORNU, ETC‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1900-1901, 4 fort volumes in 8 brochés, couvertures muettes d'origine pour les tomes 1 à 3, broché couverture imprimée pour le tome 4, T.1 : 15pp., 698pp., T.2 : 570pp., T.3 : 618pp., T.4 : 171pp.‎

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- Communications par : POINCARE (H.). Relations entre la physique expérimentale et la physique mathématique - VOIGT (W.). L'état actuel de nos connaissances sur l'élasticité des cristaux - VAN'T HOFF (J.H.). Cristallisation à température constante - PERRIN (J.). Osmose. Parois semi-perméables - CORNU (A.). Sur la vitesse de la lumière - BRANLY (E.). Les radioconducteurs - Nagaoka (H.). Le magnétostriction - LORENTZ (H.A.). Théorie des phénomènes magnéto-optiques récemment découverts - DRUDE (P.). Théorie de la dispersion dans les métaux fondée sur la considération des électrons - BECQUEREL (H.). Sur le rayonnement de l'uranium et sur diverses propriétés physiques du rayonnement des corps radioactifs - CURIE (P.) - CURIE (Mme). Les nouvelles substances radioactives et les rayons qu'elles émettent - THOMSON (J.J.). Indications relatives à la constitution de la matière fournies par les recherches récentes sur le passage de l'électricité à travers les gaz - etc ---- "In 1883, Guillaume entered the International Bureau of weights and measures at Sèvres, near Paris... He undertook a methodical study of ferronickels and showed that with 36 percent nickel, one obtained an alloy, which he called invar that expanded ten times less than iron and that even possessed a zero coefficient of dilation after appropriate tempering, drawing and rolling. This alloy immediately found numerous applications, particularly in clockmaking. He also helped to solve another problem : compensation in ordinary watches... These successes gave Guillaume an important role in the International physics congress, held in Paris in 1900 and earned him the 1920 Nobel Prize in physics...". (DSB V pp. 582/583)**1325/L5AR‎

‎Oeuvres. Publiées par les soins de la Société française de physique ‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1908 ‎

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‎In-4 (25,2 x 16,8 cm), broché, non coupé. Edition originale, ornée d’un beau portrait de Pierre Curie en héliogravure, et de 2 planches. Préface de Marie Curie. (quelques défauts et déchirures, pliures sur la couverture, les 2 planches en fin d'ouvrage et au bas des pages 209 à 240, piqûres sur les tranches). // Quarto (25,2 x 16,8 cm), softcover, unopened. First edition, illustrated with a fine portrait of Pierre Curie in heliogravure, and 2 plates. Introduction by Marie Curie. (some defects and tears, foldings on cover, on the 2 plates at the end and on bottom of pages 209 to 240, spots on edges).‎

‎Madame Curie. Biographie d'une mère par l'une de ses filles. Portrait de Marie Curie en frontispice.‎

‎Paris, éd. Gallimard 1938. Bon exemplaire relié, reliure artisanale soignée, in-8, 314 pages avec annexes dont table. ‎

‎(Nine papers documenting the discovery of radioactivity, the discovery of Radium and Polonium:) 1. Becquerel: Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence. 2. Becquerel: Sur les radiations invisibles émises par les corps phosphorescents. 3. Becq...‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1896 a. 1898. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcloth, spines gilt and with gilt lettering. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 122 a. 127. - 1633 pp. + 1302 pp. Both with halftitle and title-page. Title-pages with a punched stamp to lower margin. The papers (tome 122:) pp. 420-421, 501-503, 559-564, 689-694, 762-767, 1086-1088. (Tome 127:) pp. 175-178, 1215-1217, 1218. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the landmark papers in which Becquerel documents his discovery of Radio-activity, PROMPTING THE NUCLEAR AGE, and the papers which the Curies announced the discoveries of the 2 elements Polonium and Radium.Becquerel was an expert in fluorescence and phosphorescence, continuing the work of his father and grandfather. Follwing the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen, Bexquerel investigated fluorescent materials to see if they also emitted X-rays. He exposed a fluorescent uranium salt, pechblende, to light and then placed it on a wrapped photographic plate.He found that a faint image was left on the plate, which he believed was due to the pichblende emitting the light it had absorbed as a more penetrating radiation.. However, by chace, he left a sample that had not been exposed to light on top of a photographic plate in a drawer. he noticed that the photographic plate also had a a faint image of the pechblende. After several chemical tests he concluded that these ""Becquerel rays"" were a property of atoms. He had, by chace, discovered radio-activity and prompted thee beginning of the nuclear age. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie. The ""Becquerel Rays"" were later discovered to be a composite of three forms of emanation, distinguished by Rutherford as alpha, beta and gamma rays.Dibner: 163 (the later Mémoire from 1903) - PMM: 393 (1903- Mémoire) - Garrison & Morton: 2001 (only the first paper). - Magie ""A Sourve Book in Physics"" p. 610 ff. - Norman:157. ""The Curie's owned their success to an extremely sensitive electroscopic apparatus constructed by Pierre and his brother Jacques, which made possible a ""new method of chemical analysis based on the precise measurement of radium emitted, a method still in use.""(DSB).Becquerel's discovery of the radioactive properties of uranium (1896) inspired Marie and Pierre Curie to investigate radiation. They reported their researches in a series of papers from 1897 in the Comptes rendus. First they isolated a new substance about three hundred times as active as radium. This they called Polonium in honour of Marie's native Poland. A further examnination of the residue of Pitchblende after the removal of uranium and polonium disclosed residual radio-activity far greater than was possessed by either substance alone. To this material the name Radium was given. The radium was found to be about two million times as radio-active as uranium.Garrison & Morton: 2003. - Magie ""A Source Book in Physics"" p. 613 ff.‎

‎Oeuvres. Publiées par les soins de la Société française de physique.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1908.‎

‎ Edition originale. Ces oeuvres contiennent toutes les publications de Pierre Curie sur la radioactivité. Printing and the man of man 394. Bel exemplaire. /// In-8 de portrait, XXII, 621 pp., 2 planches hors-texte. Demi-chagrin brun, dos à nerfs avec filets dorés. (Reliure de l'époque.) //// First edition. "The tragic death of Pierre Curie at the age of forty-seven 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 (see No. 2261), 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 (see No. 2142). This volume of collected writings includes works on magnetism, crystal symmetry, pyroelectric phenomena, and an account of the discovery of radium. The laudatory introduction by Marie Curie gives some interesting bits of family history."Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2223. /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET‎

‎ève Curie Mademe Curie gallimard‎

‎Editions Gallimard 1948 1948. Ève Curie - Mademe Curie / Gallimard 1948‎

‎Lettre Autographe Signée à Henri Béraud - Clermont le 19 février 1941 -‎

‎ 1 page in4 - bon état - ‎

‎Importante lettre sur l'action d'Eve Curie pendant la guerre: Il peut voir que Eve Curie n'avait pas prononcé les mots que lui prêtait "une machination allemande" - La radio américaine a annoncé que "non seulement Eve Curie n'avait rien dit de semblable et que non seulement le Président Roosevelt n'avait pas infligé un blâme à la conférencière mais encore l'avait invité à passer le week end du 15 au 17 auprès de lui" - Il tenait beaucoup à avoir raison à ses yeux dans cette affaire - ‎

‎Exposés de radioactivité et de physique nucléaire publiés sous la direction de Madame Pierre Curie : II - L'électron positif‎

‎Paris, Hermann, 1934, in-8, 26-[2] pp, 4 pl, Broché, couverture imprimée de l'éditeur, Actualités scientifiques et industrielles, 182. Second fascicule des exposés de radioactivité et de physique nucléaire publiés sous la direction de Marie Curie. Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) et son époux Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), obtinrent conjointement le prix Nobel de chimie en 1935 pour la découverte de la radioactivité induite et de la radioactivité artificielle. Bon exemplaire. Couverture rigide‎

‎Bon 26-[2] pp., 4 pl.‎

‎Développement, par pression, de l'èlectricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées. Note de MM. Jacques et Pierre Curie, présentée par M. Friedel.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 91, No 5 (entire issue offered). Pp. 251-310. The Curie's paper: pp. 294-295.‎

‎First apperance of the paper in which the two brothers announced their discovery of the Piezoelectric Effect, as they observed how an electric potential appeared across crystals of quartza and of Rochelle salt when pressure was applied to them. The potential varied directly with the pressure, and they named the phenomenon Piezoelectricity, meaning ""to press"" (Greek). Crystals with piezoelectric properties form an essential portion of sound-electronics devices such as microphones and record-players.""The applications of piezoelectric crystals are innumerable"" one of the most important is their use in frequency stabilization of oscillating electromagnetic cirasciots for radio broadcasting stations. They are used in most piezometers for measuring with great precision either very strong pressure variations, such as those of a cannon at the moment of firing, or very weak ones, such as artery pulsations. These applications have led to the creation of a new industry, the manufacture of large ""mono"" such as quartz obtained hydrothermally around 500°C. under high water pressures, or crystals such as Rochelle salt, obtained from aqueous solutions. These two substances were mentioned in the Curie brothers’ report announcing the discovery of piezoelectricity."" (DSB).""The first experimental demonstration of a connection between macroscopic piezoelectric phenomena and crystallographic structure was published in 1880 by Pierre and Jacques Curie. Their experiment consisted of a conclusive measurement of surface charges appearing on specially prepared crystals (tourmaline, quartz, topaz, cane sugar and Rochelle salt among them) which were subjected to mechanical stress. These results were a credit to the Curies' imagination and perseverance, considering that they were obtained with nothing more than tinfoil, glue, wire, magnets and a jeweler's saw."" (Piezo Systems, Inc.).Magee ""A Source Book in Physics"", p. 547 ff.‎

‎Un nouveau type de radioactivité. (Séance du 15 Janvier 1934).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1934. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 198 No 3. Titlepage to vol. 198. Pp. (213-) 292. (Entire issue offered). The joint paper: pp. 254-256 a. 1 photographic illustration in the text. Titlepage with a stamp on verso, 2 small tears and a tiny bit of upper right corner gone. Titlepage a bit browned.‎

‎First appearance of this seminal paper in which artificial radioactivity was announced for the first time. Curie and Joliot were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 ""in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"".""Until this date (1934), atomic nuclei emitting radiation were found in nature: it was called the natural radioactivity. It had been known since Rutherford that this natural radioactivity changed a nucleus into an other one: for instance radium becomes finally lead after many radioactive decays. We could say that lead does not become gold but gold becomes lead! But... this change of matter was not under control. It was not possible to construct the desired chemical element as the alchemist dreamed... But Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie, made the dream become almost reality.""""Another very important development in the early 1934 by the Joliot-Curies in connection with irradiation of aluminum by alpha particles. The two French scientists detected the production of the recently discovered positrons. [...] However, they soon realized that the positron activity continued after the alpha source was removed and that they had, in fact, discovered positive beta radioactivity. The importance of the discovery of artificial radioactivity was immediately recognized and resulted in a Nobel Prize in chemistry to the Joliot-Curies in 1935. The new phenomenon immediately became widely employed in nuclear physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine."" (Kragh, Quantum Generations, p. 187)""These elegant experiments, which provided the first chemical proof of induced transmutations and showed the possibility of artificially creating radioisotopes of known stable elements, were repeated and extended in the major nuclear physics laboratories of various countries "" (DSB).Born on 12 September 1897 in Paris, Irène Curie was the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie. ""During World War I, she worked as a nurse, helping her mother operate radiography equipment, and then studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne, gaining a doctorate for studying the range of alpha particles. She then went to work for her mother at the Radium Institute. There she met Frédéric Joliot whom she married in 1926. Frédéric Joliot was born on 19 March 1900 in Paris - He joined the Radium Institute in 1925 and obtained his PhD in 1930. Together the Joliot-Curies worked on radioactivity and the transmutation of the elements. Twice they just missed major discoveries: in 1932 when Chadwick beat them to the neutron, and in 1933 when Anderson discovered the positron. However, in 1934, whilst bombarding light elements with alpha particles, the Joliot-Curies noticed that, although proton production stopped when the alpha particle bombardment stopped, another form of radiation continued. The alpha particles had produced an isotope of phosphorus not found in nature. This isotope was radioactive and was decaying through beta-decay"" (DSB).‎

‎Sur les Corps radioactifs, présentée par M. H. Becquerel.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1902. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", tome 134, No 2. Pp. (69-) 132. With titlepage to volume 134. (Entire issue offered). The Curie's paper: pp. 85-87. A stamp to titlepage. Sewing loosening.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper on the radioactive elements, in which Pierre and Marie Curie were the first to show, that the radioactive emissions from uranium and thorium was an INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THEIR ATOMS.‎

‎Sur la radioactivité provoquée par les rayons de Becquerel. (Note de P. Curie et de Mme M.-P. Curie) + Sur la spectre du radium. Note de Eug. demarcay. (+) Sur les poids atomique du métal dans le chlorure de baryum radifère. Note de Mme Sklodowska Cur...‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 129, No 19, 20 a. 21). Pp. (687-) 853. (3 entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 714-716, 716-717, 760-762 a. 823-825. All three issues clean and fine.‎

‎First apperance of 4 importent papers on the newly discovered phenomena of radioactivity.‎

‎Oeuvres‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1908, in-8, portrait, XXII-621 pp, 2 pl, Demi-chagrin rouge moderne, Première édition des ces oeuvres publiées par les soins de la Société Française de Physique et préfacées par Marie Curie. Beau portrait héliogravé de Pierre Curie et 2 planches représentant des vues du laboratoire de l'École de Physique et de Chimie de la ville de Paris où ont été effectuées les recherches relatives à la découverte du radium ; nombreuses figures dans le texte. L'ouvrage comprend la publication d'un manuscrit inédit de 1903, Expériences diverses à faire avec une balance, ainsi que de nombreux articles publiés entre 1880 et 1906 dans les Compte Rendus de l'Académie des sciences, la Société Française de physique, le Journal de Physique, le Bulletin de la Société Minéralogique de France, les Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Genève, la Lumière électrique et les Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Pierre Curie (1859-1906) fut tué dans un accident de la route trois ans après avoir obtenu, conjointement avec Henri Becquerel et Marie Curie, le Prix Nobel pour ses travaux sur la radioactivité. Très bon exemplaire. Cachet de la bibliothèque des Capucins de Toulouse sur la page de titre. Cachet ex-dono de la Société française de physique sur le faux-titre. DSB III, 508. PMM n° 394. Couverture rigide‎

4 Images

‎Bon portrait, XXII-621 pp., 2 pl.‎

‎Pierre Curie.‎

‎ Editions Douin, 2020, in-12 à l'italienne, 210 pp, texte entièrement recomposé, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état‎

‎Le 19 avril 1906, Pierre Curie meurt en traversant la rue Dauphine, renversé accidentellement par un camion. Suis-je bien placée pour rédiger sa biographie ?, s’est demandé Marie qui a partagé avec son époux le Prix Nobel. Encouragée par le frère de Pierre, elle accepte pourtant cette tâche. Et ainsi se déroulent sous nos yeux les détails d’une personnalité, d’une existence incomparables, illustrées par la description de sa famille, de son enfance, de ses travaux de physique débouchant sur le fardeau de la célébrité. « Pierre Curie naquit le 15 mai 1859, dans une maison située en face du Jardin des Plantes, rue Cuvier, où habitaient ses parents à l’époque où son père travaillait dans les laboratoires du Muséum. » De son enfance à Paris, il garda le souvenir des jours de la Commune, de la bataille sur la barricade tout près de sa maison, de l’ambulance créée par son père pour ramener les blessés. D’intelligence apparemment lente, élevé en dehors de l’école, très amoureux de la nature, c’était un grand jeune homme mince, aux cheveux châtains et aux yeux bleus, d’un aspect timide et réservé. Doté d’une profonde vie intérieure, l’adolescent écrit : « Il faut faire de la vie un rêve et faire d’un rêve une réalité. » Dans le même ordre d’idée, il déclare son amour à sa compagne polonaise en ces termes : « Ce serait une belle chose que de passer la vie l’un près de l’autre hypnotisés dans nos rêves : votre rêve patriotique, notre rêve humanitaire et notre rêve scientifique. » Il sera pendant 22 ans professeur et chercheur à l’École de physique et de chimie de la Ville de Paris. « Nous vivions très unis, confie Marie devenue sa femme, nous intéressant en commun à toutes choses. » Et le rêve devient réalité : la découverte du radium par Pierre Curie. Marie invente le mot radioactivité. ‎

‎Madame Curie. ‘NRF’.‎

‎Paris, Gallimard, 1938, in-8°, portrait photgr. de Mme Curie + 315 p., reliure en toile, avec la jaquette ill..‎

‎Première édition. Ex. num. nr. 3002 (sur 3390 ex.). ‎

‎Le Radium et les radio-éléments. Avec préface de Madame Pierre Curie.‎

‎ Baillière, "Encyclopédie minière et métallurgique" 1925 1 vol. broché gr. in-8, broché, VII + 352 pp. Edition originale de cette bonne synthèse sur la radioactivité par le neveu de Marie Curie, avec de nombreux croquis, tableaux et graphiques. Exemplaire cassé, avec de petits manques au dos. Intérieur propre.‎

‎MADAME CURIE ‎

‎Paris Gallimard NRF 1938 in 8 (20,5x14,5) 1 volume reliure toilé bleu turquoise, dos et plat supérieur titrés en lettres dorés, portrait de Marie Curie en frontispice, 311 pages [2], dos légèrement passé. Marie Sklodowska-Curie, née Maria Salomea Sklodowska , Varsovie 1867 - Passy 1934, physicienne et chimiste. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) ‎

‎Très bon Couverture rigide ‎