Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified woman, 1907 Jan. 29.

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Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified woman, 1907 Jan. 29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270870610

Turning down a plan to create an Institute in honor of her late husband Pierre Curie, recommending instead an installation in one of the existing chemistry labs of the Sorbonne.

1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

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Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obta...