RADIOACTIVE, Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
by Redniss, Lauren
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0061351326
- ISBN 13
- 9780061351327
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Harpercollins, 2010, 2011. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto, hardcover, gift note on endpaper else near ine in orange decorative boards. 208 pp. In 1891, 24-year-old Marie Sklodowska moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81942
- Title
- RADIOACTIVE, Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
- Author
- Redniss, Lauren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0061351326
- ISBN 13
- 9780061351327
- Publisher
- Harpercollins, 2010
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
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