Traité de Radioactivité; [Treatise of Radioactivity]
Paris: Gauthier, 1910. First Edition. Wrappers. 2 vols. 1st edition (in French). Original printed wrappers (1 tan, 1 gray), fine beyond chance, heavy beyond sorrow. Rebound sets are common, those in wrappers aren’t, especially when they are this sharp. Ref: Sparrow MOS, 41. Honeyman II, 789. Fine. Item #447
Marie Curie was modern science’s first Doc Star. After her husband died, she continued their research with the obstinacy of a weed and, in 1910, finally isolated radium in its pure state (radium is toxic and, like being in a dark closet with an angry bee, it’ll get you eventually). This book is her collected papers, and for her effort she won the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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