Theses Presentees A La Faculte Des Sciences De Luniversite De Paris Pour Obtenir Le Grade De

by Irene Curie

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First edition · Signed

Paris: Masson et Cie, 1925. / First edition, inscribed by the author, of Irène Curie's doctoral thesis — the work that established her mastery of α-particle technique with polonium sources and laid the foundation for the 1934 discovery of artificial radioactivity, for which she and Frédéric Joliot received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry of 1935. The copy carries, in Irène's own hand on the front wrapper, the inscription

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