Marie Curie And The Science Of Radioactivity

Marie Curie: And the Science of Radioactivity Naomi Pasachoff Oxford University Press Marie Curie And the Science of Radioactivity Image Not Available Owen Gingerich General Editor Marie Curie And the Science of Radioactivity Naomi Pasachoff Oxford University Press New York • Oxford To my mother, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, a role model for daughters and granddaughters Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Bombay Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1996 by Naomi Pasachoff First published in 1996 by Oxford University Press, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback in 1997 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Excerpts from Madame Curie, by Eve Curie, Copyright © 1937 by Doubleday, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group, Inc., used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Design: Design Oasis Layout: Leonard Levitsky Picture research: Lisa Kirchner Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pasachoff, Naomi Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity / Naomi Pasachoff. p. cm. — (Oxford portraits in science)