Project Gutenberg 2013-07-16 Public domain in the USA. 424 Curie, Marie 1867 1934 Curie, Marie Skłodowska Skłodowska, Marya Curie, Sklodowska 04010116 Recherches sur les substances radioactives E-text prepared by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) "Recherches sur les substances radioactives" by Marie Curie is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The work presents Curie's extensive research on radioactive substances, particularly focusing on uranium and the newly identified element radium. The text is aimed at a scholarly audience and contributes significantly to the field of radiochemistry. At the start of the work, Curie introduces her research, which began over four years prior, motivated by the intriguing discovery of uranium radiation by Henri Becquerel. She discusses the collaborative efforts with her husband, Pierre Curie, in studying radioactive properties and emphasizes the establishment of radium as a new, highly radioactive element. The early chapters outline the significance of various experiments conducted, the methodologies employed to study radioactivity, and the continual evolution of scientific understanding surrounding radioactive substances as more researchers engage with the topic following their discoveries. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43233/43233-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 58.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fr Radioactivity Radioactive substances QC Text FR Femmes FR Prix Nobel FR Sciences et Techniques Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 392858 2026-08-17T12:24:42.065390 text/html 384263 2024-10-23T17:12:08 text/html 1202865 2026-08-17T12:24:49.094360 application/epub+zip 1199200 2026-08-17T12:24:43.720353 application/epub+zip 163206 2026-08-17T12:24:42.766374 application/epub+zip 1310711 2026-08-17T12:24:52.776343 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1266376 2026-08-17T12:24:47.774326 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 244686 2022-09-19T17:32:24.203842 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299068 2026-08-17T12:24:40.997418 text/plain; charset=utf-8 279129 2024-10-23T17:12:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17618 2026-08-17T12:24:53.691297 application/rdf+xml 7542 2026-08-17T12:24:42.919382 image/jpeg 1921 2026-08-17T12:24:42.840343 image/jpeg 1172245 2026-08-17T12:24:42.191405 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia