Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie's parents, who were educated and intelligent, formed a part of the _petite bourgeoisie_ of small means. They did not frequent fashionable society, but confined them...

Pierre Curie was still very young when he began his higher studies in preparation for the licentiate in physics. He followed the lectures and laboratory work at the Sorbonne and...

It was in the School of Physics, in the old buildings of the Collège Rollin, that Pierre Curie was destined to work, first as Director of Laboratory Work, then as Professor, for...

I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894. I was then living in Paris where for three years I[6] had been studying at the Sorbonne. I had passed the e...

I have already said that in 1897 Pierre Curie was occupied with an investigation on the growth of crystals. I myself had finished, by the beginning of vacation, a study of the m...

In spite of our desire to concentrate our entire effort on the work in which we were engaged, and in spite of the fact that our needs were so modest, we were forced to recognize...

I shall not attempt to describe the grief of the family left by Pierre Curie. By what I have earlier said in this narrative one can understand what he meant to his father, his b...

I have been asked by my American friends to write the story of my life. At first, the idea seemed alien to me, but I yielded to persuasion. However, I could not conceive my biog...

With my marriage there began for me a new existence entirely different from the solitary life that I had known during the preceding years. My husband and I were so closely unite...

In 1914, it happened, as it often had in other years, that my daughters had left Paris for their summer vacation before me. They were accompanied by their governess, in whom I h...

My beautiful voyage to the United States of America resulted, as is known, from the generous initiative of an American woman, Mrs. Meloney, editor of an important magazine, the...