Bibliography

LINKS

• 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
• About radioactivity on the Centennial of the discovery (French version)
• 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 Visual Archives
• A film biography on Madame Curie from Teach with Movies
• MORE SCIENCE HISTORY EXHIBITS from the Center for History of Physics

FURTHER READING

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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