CURIE, Radioactivité, 1935

Paris, Hermann, 1935.

8vo (253x165 mm), (6)-563 pages, 2 portraicts and 26 plates.  binding : Original printed wrappers. Cover slightly faded. Little lack on second cover. 

references: Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine [38 :"Left unfinished at Marie Curie's death, the text of this treatise was completed by Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot. The first section of the book deals with the background topics - ionized gases, electrons, and x-rays - that led to the discovery of radioactivity and the bulk of the text is a comprehensive review of radioactivity, radioactive transformations, and the chemistry and physics of radioactive materials."].

Price : 450 €