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The elements of Marie Curie : (Record no. 65228)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2024024606
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780802163820
Qualifying information (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0802163823
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System control number (OCoLC)on1424600459
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Language of cataloging eng
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QD22.C8
Item number S66 2024
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 540.92
Edition number 23/eng/20240605
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sobel, Dava,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 14036
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The elements of Marie Curie :
Remainder of title how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science /
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title How the glow of radium lit a path for women in science
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Atlantic Monthly Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc [2024]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own. "Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science--Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally memorable outside it. Grieving Pierre's untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove a van she outfitted with X-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of twentieth-century physics; won support from two US presidents; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life. As Sobel did so memorably in her portrait of Galileo through the prism of his daughter, she approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy--from France's Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway's Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie's elder daughter, Irene, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in Eve's later recollection, "discovered all at once what the retiring woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world." With the consummate skill that made bestsellers of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, and the appreciation for women in science at the heart of her most recent The Glass Universe, Dava Sobel has crafted a radiant biography and a masterpiece of storytelling, illuminating the life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time"--
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Curie, Marie,
Dates associated with a name 1867-1934.
9 (RLIN) 139421
Personal name Curie, Marie,
Dates associated with a name 1867-1934
General subdivision Friends and associates.
9 (RLIN) 141045
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Chemists
Geographic subdivision France
Form subdivision Biography.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Women chemists
Geographic subdivision France
Form subdivision Biography.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physicists
Geographic subdivision France
Form subdivision Biography.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Women physicists
Geographic subdivision France
Form subdivision Biography.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mentoring in science
Geographic subdivision France
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
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Genre/form data or focus term Biographies.
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Genre/form data or focus term Biographies.
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776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Sobel, Dava.
Title Elements of Marie Curie
Edition First edition.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2024]
International Standard Book Number 9780802163837
Record control number (DLC) 2024024607
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type BIOG
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  Biography Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction B CUR 34480000602411 BIOG