Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity

Marie Sklodowska-Curie, a biography with MANY LINKS
Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium, an essay by N. Froman
Marie Curie's Nobel Prize in Physics and in Chemistry
Basic introduction to elements and atoms from Harvard's Jefferson Lab
Classic radioactivity papers
The Curie Institute today, and their pages on the Curie Museum (in French)
Marie Curie Walking Tour of Paris
Marie Curie and U.S. radiation standards
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
Find PHOTOS of the Curies in the physics AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
A film biography on Madame Curie from Teach with Movies
MORE SCIENCE HISTORY EXHIBITS from the Center for History of Physics
New York Times: Manya: The Living History of Marie Curie by Susan Marie Frontczak
New York Times: My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium. And It Killed Her.
Forbes: It's Marie Curie's 150th Birthday, and Her Legacy Deserves More Nuance.

This bibliography contains only English-language works accessible to the general reader on the various aspects of Marie Curie's life. Further references are given in these works.

Brian, Dennis. The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

Curie, Eve. Madame Curie. Translated by Vincent Sheean. 1937. Reprint. New York: Da Capo, 1986. >

Curie, Marie. Pierre Curie. Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg. New York: Macmillan, 1932. (Marie Curie's Autobiographical Notes are included at the end of Pierre Curie.)

Giroud, Françoise. Marie Curie: A Life. Translated by Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986.

Goldsmith, Barbara . Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie.
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Goldsmith, Maurice. Frédéric Joliot-Curie: A Biography. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976.

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. New York: Carol Press, 1998.

Mould, R. F. A Century of X-Rays and Radioactivity in Medicine with Emphasis on Photographic Records of the Early Years. Philadelphia: IOP Publishing, 1993.

Pasachoff, Naomi. Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pflaum, Rosalynd. Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and Her World. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

Quinn, Susan. Marie Curie: A Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Rayner-Canham, Marlene and Geoffrey. A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Redniss, Lauren. Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout. New York: itbooks, Harper Collins Publishers, 2011.

Reid, Robert William. Marie Curie. New York: New American Library, 1978.

Romer, Alfred, ed. The Curies: Polonium and Radium, in Radiochemistry and the Discovery of Isotopes. New York: Dover, 1970.

Segrè, Emilio. From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries. San Francisco: Freeman, 1980.

Weart, Spencer R. Scientists in Power. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Wolke, Robert L. Marie Curie's Doctoral Thesis: Prelude to a Nobel Prize. Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 561-573.

Woznicki, Robert. Madame Curie--Daughter of Poland. Miami: American Institute of Polish Culture, 1983.