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CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867-1934). Thèses présentées a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès sciences physiques. 1re thèse – Récherches sur les substances radioactives. 2e thèse – Propositions données par la Faculté. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1903.
First edition of Marie Curie’s most significant publication – extra-illustrated with 6 photographs, including depictions of the Curies at work. Curie's thesis contains a critical analysis of her extraordinarily productive researches into the phenomenon of radioactivity during the years 1897 to 1903, carried out in collaboration with her husband and with great practical difficulties. During this period, Curie had 'made the first measurement of radioactive radiation, demonstrated the radioactive properties of thorium, discovered polonium and radium, described the atomic nature of radioactivity, prepared pure radium chloride, determined the atomic weight of radium, observed induced radioactivity [...] and developed the chemical aspects of radioactivity' (Norman). Six months after the presentation of her thesis, the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded jointly to Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for their discovery of radioactivity. Marie, the first woman to be so honoured, was to become in 1911 the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice. Norman 543; PMM 394.
Octavo (237 x 154mm). Illustrations in the text; 6 photographs tipped in after the text, additional leaf mounted on guard with contemporary manuscript description of the photographs in French (one leaf slightly browned, a few tiny marginal stains). Modern black quarter morocco over marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in (small repairs to upper wrapper).
First edition of Marie Curie’s most significant publication – extra-illustrated with 6 photographs, including depictions of the Curies at work. Curie's thesis contains a critical analysis of her extraordinarily productive researches into the phenomenon of radioactivity during the years 1897 to 1903, carried out in collaboration with her husband and with great practical difficulties. During this period, Curie had 'made the first measurement of radioactive radiation, demonstrated the radioactive properties of thorium, discovered polonium and radium, described the atomic nature of radioactivity, prepared pure radium chloride, determined the atomic weight of radium, observed induced radioactivity [...] and developed the chemical aspects of radioactivity' (Norman). Six months after the presentation of her thesis, the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded jointly to Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for their discovery of radioactivity. Marie, the first woman to be so honoured, was to become in 1911 the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice. Norman 543; PMM 394.
Octavo (237 x 154mm). Illustrations in the text; 6 photographs tipped in after the text, additional leaf mounted on guard with contemporary manuscript description of the photographs in French (one leaf slightly browned, a few tiny marginal stains). Modern black quarter morocco over marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in (small repairs to upper wrapper).
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