Marie Curie - Kathleen Krull [33]
depression and
education of
fame of
finances of
fund-raising by
as governess
hard work and
health of
legacy of
love affairs of
marriage of
miscarriage
as mother
Nobel prizes notebooks
patience and persistence of
personality of
Pierre’s death and
Polish name
supernatural and
as teacher and lecturer
Curie, Pierre (husband)
burial at the Panthéon
career as scientist
collaboration with Marie
courtship of Marie
dangers of radiation exposure and
death of
described
education of
fame and
father of
finances of
health of
marriage of
Nobel prizes
supernatural and
support for Marie’s research and studies
as teacher at the Sorbonne
curium, discovery and naming of
darwin, Charles
debierne, André-Louis
demarcay, Eugène
dickens, Charles
duclaux, Emile
Einstein, Albert
electrometer
electrons
Elementary Treatise on Chemistry (Lavoisier)
elements
defined
first table of
Mendeleyev’s periodic table
see also specific elements
energy, laws of
“Flying University”
Ford, Henry
fractional crystallization
French Academy of Sciences
Pierre Curie elected to
Marie Curie’s rejection by
first woman elected to
as male institution
French Atomic Energy Commission
French Resistance
Freud, Sigmund
gallium, discovery of
Garson, Greer
germanium, discovery of
half-life of unstable elements
radiocarbon-dating techniques
Harding, Warren G.
Harvard University
helium
Hiroshima
Institute of Nuclear Physics
International Congress of Physics
Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud)
Japan, atomic bombs used against
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric
death of
Nobel Prize
Joliot-Curie, Irène (Marie’s daughter)
childhood of
death of
education of
Nobel Prize
at Radium Institute
as world peace advocate
during World War I
Labouisse, Ève Curie (daughter)
biography of her mother
childhood of
education of
Labouisse, Henri
Langevin, Hélène (granddaughter of Marie Curie)
Langevin, Paul
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Lippmann, Gabriel
“little curies,” (X-ray machine)
Lumière, Auguste and Louis
Madame Curie (1943 film)
magnetic properties of steel, Marie Curie’s research on
medical uses of radium
Meitner, Lise
Mendeleyev, dmitri
Model T
Monet, Claude
“Museum of Industry and Agriculture”
Nagasaki
neutron, discovery of
“New Radioactive Substances and the Rays They Emit, The”
Newton, Sir Isaac
New York Times, The
Nobel, Alfred
Nobel Prize, recipients of
Henri Becquerel
Marie and Pierre Curie
Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Gabriel Lippman
Wilhelm Röntgen
Nuclear disarmament Peace Council
nuclear physics
atomic weapons and
peaceful applications of
see also atomic physics
nuclear power
nucleus of the atom
“On a New Radio-Active Substance Contained in Pitchblende”
“On Symmetry in Physical Phenomena”
Orzeszkowa, Eliza
Paderewski, Jan
paint, radium-based
Paris Exposition of 1900
Paris School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry
Pasteur, Louis
Pasteur Institute
Perey, Marguerite
pitchblende residue
Planck, Max
Poincaré, Henri
Poland
liberation of
Russian rule of
polonium
atomic weight of
discovery of
half-life of
researching of
positivism
positron, discovery of the
Principles of Chemistry, The (Mendeleyev)
quartz crystals
radiation exposure, dangers of
determining lethal levels of exposure
radioactivity
“artificial”
commercial uses of
half-life of unstable elements
the paranormal and
Treatise on Radioactivity
radiocarbon-dating techniques
Radiology in War (Curie)
radium
atomic weight of
in consumer products
cost per ounce
dangers of exposure to, see radiation exposure, dangers of
discovery of
isolation of pure
medical uses of, see medical uses of radium
military applications of
patent for producing
predictions of potential for evil from
production in large quantities
researching of
research leading to discovery of
safekeeping of, during World War I
standard unit of measurement (“curie”)
as unstable element
Radium Institute, Paris
accomplishments of building of
Irène Curie’s accomplishments