Curie, Marie
£7,500
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
Autograph letter signed, Paris, 11th December 1903, 4 pages, 8vo, addressed to an unnamed recipient, replying to a request for biographical details, "I have no good photographs at this moment. We have given away several which have appeared in the newspapers but the[y] are generally very bad... Here is some information; I originally come from Poland, from Warsaw... I went to Paris in 1891 to take higher studies at the Sorbonne. I took this course for 3 years and obtained the degree of 'licientiate' of physics and mathematical science... I have published a work on 'the magnetic properties of tempered steel' and a dissertation 'On radioactive substances' which I presented as a Thesis at the Faculty of Science to obtain my Doctor's degree.", previous folds, with typed copy and typed English translation (3)
Footnote
Note: Marie Curie was awarded her first Nobel Prize in 1903, in recognition of her work alongside her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel on radioactivity.