Illustrations

  2.1   Mme Sklodovska, Marie Curie’s Mother

  2.2   The Sklodovski Children

  3.1   The House in Which Marie Curie, then Manya Sklodovska, Taught as a Governess

  3.2   M. Sklodovski and His Three Daughters

  7.1   The Two Positivists

  7.2   The Diploma of the Second Nobel Prize Award Made to Mme Curie in 1911

  7.3   A Page from Manya Sklodovska’s Private Notebook, Written in 1885

  8.1   The Curie Family

  8.2   Pierre Curie, as He Appeared Lecturing to His Classes in 1906

12.1   Two Views of the Shed at the School of Physics on the Rue Lhomond Where Radium Was Discovered

12.2   Pages from Marie Curie’s Work Books, 1897–1898

14.1   Henri Becquerel, the First Scientist to Observe the Phenomenon of Radioactivity

14.2   Pierre and Marie Curie with the Bicycles on Which They Roamed the Roads of France Together

16.1   Marie and Pierre Curie with Their Daughter, Irène, in 1904

16.2   Marie Curie and Her Two Daughters, Eve and Irène, in 1908

17.1   Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and Their Daughter, Irène, in the Garden of the House on Boulevard Kellermann, 1904

17.2   Marie Curie in Her Laboratory, 1912

20.1   Marie Curie with Her Two Sisters, Mme Szalay and Mme Dluska, and Her Brother M. Sklodovski, Photographed in Warsaw in 1912

20.2   Mme Curie in Her Laboratory, in 1912

21.1   Marie Curie at the Wheel of the Famous Renault Car Converted into a Radiological Unit

21.2   Marie Curie’s Favorite Portrait of Her Husband

22.1   The Radium Institute at Warsaw

22.2   The Radium Institute at Paris

22.3   Mme Curie, Irène Curie and Pupils from the American Expeditionary Corps, at the Institute of Radium in Paris

23.1   Marie Curie with Dean Pegram, Dean of the School of Engineering at Columbia University, 1921

23.2   Marie Curie Discussing a Scientific Problem at Pittsburgh During Her American Tour

24.1   Marie Curie and President Harding During Her Tour of the United States in 1921

24.2   Mme Curie in Her Office at the Radium Institute in Paris, 1925

25.1   A Group Photograph Made at the Institute of Radium in Paris

25.2   Mme Curie and Her Daughter, Irène, 1925

26.1   Marie Curie in 1931, Three Years before Her Death

26.2   The Curie Family Tomb, in the Cemetery at Sceaux