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| LC control number |
2024024606 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780802163820 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0802163823 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1424600459 |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
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e-fr--- |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
AJMA |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QD22.C8 |
| Item number |
S66 2024 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
540.92 Sob |
| Item number |
11 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
540.92 Sob |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Sobel, Dava |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Elements of Marie Curie |
| Remainder of title |
how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Dava Sobel |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
How the glow of radium lit a path for women in science |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
The elements of Marie Curie |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface. Formula for an icon : Marie Curie (1867-1934) -- Part one : School of physics and chemistry, 42 Rue Lhomond, Paris -- Manya (hydrogen) -- Marie (iron) -- Madame Curie (tungsten and molybdenum) -- Pierre (uranium) -- Andre (actinium) -- Eugenie (radiotellurium) -- Part two : Sorbonne Annex, 12 Rue Cuvier -- Harriet (emanation) -- Ellen (copper and lithium) -- Lucie (helium) -- Sybil (thorium) -- Eva (radium) -- Jadwiga and Iren (gold) -- Hertha (carbon) -- Suzanne (platinum and iridium) -- Maurice (ionium) -- Part three : The radium institute : Curie laboratory, 1 Rue Pierre-Curie -- Irene (lead) -- Marthe (chlorine) -- Madeleine (radioneon) -- Leonie (oxygen) -- Missy (silver) -- Catherine (mesothorium) -- Frederic (radon) -- Part four : Large-scale production facility, Arcueil -- Alicja (polonium) -- Eliane (polonium bis) -- Angele (bismuth) -- Isabelle and Antonia (thallium) -- Branca (boron) -- Willy (beryllium) -- Marie-Henriette, Marietta, et al. (aluminum) -- Eve (radiophosphorus) -- Epilogue. Marguerite (francium). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| 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"-- |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
115167 |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Curie, Marie, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1867-1934 |
| General subdivision |
Friends and associates. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Chemists |
| Geographic subdivision |
France |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Women chemists |
| Geographic subdivision |
France |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Physicists |
| Geographic subdivision |
France |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Women physicists |
| Geographic subdivision |
France |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mentoring in science |
| Geographic subdivision |
France |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| 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 |
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| Koha item type |
500 - 599 |