HOMEPAGE
Cropped from
Pierre Curie C6.
Credit: ACJC
FROM
POLAND TO PARIS: A
Patriot Without a Nation
Cropped
from Marie Curie G5.
Credit: ACJC
The Sklodowski children.
Credit: ACJC
Europe in the late 19th century.
From
The Public Schools Historical Atlas ed. C. Colbeck, 1905, scanned
by the University of Texas at Austin. [permission given for educational purposes].
Source:
http://www.lib.utexas.
edu/maps/historical
/history_europe.html
Marie
Curie's mother.
Credit: ACJC
Marie Curie's high school diploma.
Credit: ACJC
FROM
POLAND TO PARIS: A Pact Between
Sisters
Marie
and Bronya Sklodowska
Credit: ACJC
Kazmierz
Zorawski, son of the family Marie worked for as a teacher.
Credit: ACJC
Buildings in the Old Town
of Warsaw
Source: http://www.brian.graney.
btinternet.co.uk/warsaw.htm
Copyright Brian Graney.
LOOKING FOR A LAB, FINDING LOVE
Eiffel tower lit up with electricity, 1900. [from
educational site; out of copyright]
Source: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org
/avp/cas/fnart/arch/1900fair.html
Gustave Caillebotte: Boulevard
Haussmann, Snow ca. 1880-1881.
Source: http://www.artnet.com/
magazine_pre2000/features/
karlins/karlins7-7-10.asp
Marie
Curie portrait from 1892.
Credit: ACJC
Pierre Curie with Marie.
Credit: ACJC
The Curies in their lab at the Paris Municipal School in 1896.
Credit: ACJC
LOOKING
FOR A LAB, FINDING LOVE
Marie with Pierre and IrPne
Credit: ACJC
THE
DISCOVERY OF RADIUM
A flask of radium.
Source:
http://nobel.scas.bcit.ca/
resource/ptable/ra.htm
Wilhelm
Roentgen A6.
Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual
Archives, Lande Collection
Copyright holder unknown.
Mystery
part I: The Mystery of the
Rays
Henri Becquerel A2, Courtesy of Culver Service, NBS Archives, courtesy
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Mineral containing uranium fluorescing under strong ultraviolet light.
Copyright: Thomas Seilnacht
Source:
: http://www.
seilnacht.tuttlingen.com
/Lexikon/92Uran.html
With friendly permission of Thomas Seilnacht © www.seilnacht.com
Mystery
part II: Attacking the Mystery
Curie
Electrometer.
Credit: ACJC.
Thorite, a mineral containing U and Th. Permission to copy descriptions and images is granted for personal and
educational use only. All such copies must include this copyright notice
and explicit references to the URL
http://mineral.galleries.com/.
Copyright (c) 1995,1996,1997,1998 by Terran Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved."
Curies' pitchblende.
Source unknown.
The school courtyard.
From: Fondation Curie, Le
radium : Célébration du vingt-cinquiPme anniversaire de sa
découverte. Paris,
Presses Universitaires de France, 1924.
Credit: ACJC.
Mystery
part III: The Mystery Answered
Radium metal, freshly prepared.
Source: http://site.ifrance.com/
okapi/polonium.htm
Polonium
metal as a thin film on a steel disc.
Source: http://site.ifrance.com/
okapi/polonium.htm
Rutherford lecturing at McGill University, Montreal.
Ernest
Rutherford A8.
Credit:
Portrait by R. G. Matthews, 1907.
Copyright McGill University,
Montreal. All enquiries to the Dean
or to the Secretary of the Board of Governors. http://www.mcgill.ca/
A flask of radium.
Source: http://nobel.scas.bcit.ca/
resource/ptable/ra.htm
The
Discovery of Radium, continued.
A lump of pitchblende.
Source:
http://www.
yourgemologist.com/pitchblende.html
Copyright Robert James.
A page from the Curies' lab notebook
From: "Courtesy Eve Curie, HélPne Langevin and Ed. Denöel,"
from M. Curie, "Recherches sur les substances radioactives," reprint
edited by H. Klickstein, (St. Louis, MO: Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. Classics
of Radiology, Vol. 2, 1966)
Credit: ACJC
A French newspaper drawing.
From: Monique Bordry, Soraya Boudia et al., Les rayons de la vie :
une histoire des applications médicales..., Paris : Institut Curie,
1998.
Credit: ACJC
The shed where radium was isolated.
Source:
http://dbhs.wvusd.
k12.ca.us/webdocs/Gallery/
Radium-Shed-2.GIF
Copyright
holder uknown.
Extraction
of radium in the old shed where Marie Curie first obtained the element
in the early 1900s.
From
Pierre Curie by Marie Curie,
Macmillan, 1923.
Radiation therapy.
From: Union MiniPre
du Haut-Katanga, Radium, Brussels,
Union MiniPre, ca. 1932.
A dish with a bit of radium compound.
From: Fondation Curie, Le
radium : Célébration du vingt-cinquieme anniversaire
de sa découverte. Paris,
Presses Universitaires de France, 1924.
Credit: ACJC
Marie and Pierre Curie in their garden.
Pierre
Curie C12
Credit: ACJC
Honors,
Disasters then Renewal
Marie Curie A1. Credit:
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel
Laureates
Copyright holder unknown.
Marie
Curie C3. Credit:
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. From:
Vanity Fair, December 1904.
Marie on a Dluski balcony.
Credit: ACJC
Marie used the glass flask pictured here during
her research for solutions of radium salts. The glass has been discoloured
by radiation from the radium. © Science Museum/Science & Society
Picture Library" [see: http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/piclib/index.asp
].
source: http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/collections/
exhiblets/curie/radium.asp
The right-wing French press, including the daily Excelsior, attacked
Curie's candidacy for the French
Academy with scurrilous and
racist claims based on supposedly scientific analyses of her handwriting
and facial characteristics.
Credit: L'Excelsior, 23 January
1911
1911 Solvay Conference.
Credit: Photographie Benjamin
Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, courtesy AIP Emilio
Segrè Visual Archives
Radium
Campaigns
Radium Institute.
Source:Eve Curie, Madame Curie. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.
Curie in X-ray vehicle.
Source: Marie and IrPne
Curie, Correspondance; choix de lettres, 1905-1934, edited by
Gillette Ziegler. Paris:
Éditeurs français réunis, 1974, © Ed. fran. réunis
Irene and Marie Curie training soldiers.
Credit: ACJC.
Irene and Marie Curie working together at the Radium Institute.
Credit: ACJC.
Curie in New York in 1920, surrounded by newsmen.
© Institut Curie
Source:
http://www.
curie.u-psud.fr/histoire
/1/Histoire1.html
Marie Curie with her daughter IrPne, her son-in-law Frédéric
Joliot-Curie and other family members.
Curie Marie G1.
Credit: Societe Francais de Physique, Paris, courtesy
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
The Curie Foundation hospital © Institut Curie
Source: http://musee.curie.fr/
documentation/hist-institut.html
