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Eve Curie Labouisse, 102; daughter, biographer of scientist Marie Curie
October 26, 2007 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Eve Curie Labouisse, 102, a journalist who wrote a best-selling biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, died Monday at her Manhattan apartment, said her stepdaughter, Anne L. Peretz. Labouisse's book "Madame Curie," published in 1937, chronicled her mother's life from her birth in Poland and education in France to her discovery -- with her husband Pierre Curie -- of the radioactive elements radium and polonium.
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Eve Curie Labouisse, 102; daughter, biographer of scientist Marie Curie
October 26, 2007 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Eve Curie Labouisse, 102, a journalist who wrote a best-selling biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, died Monday at her Manhattan apartment, said her stepdaughter, Anne L. Peretz. Labouisse's book "Madame Curie," published in 1937, chronicled her mother's life from her birth in Poland and education in France to her discovery -- with her husband Pierre Curie -- of the radioactive elements radium and polonium.
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Atom bomb's personal stories
July 1, 2005 | Carmela Ciuraru, Special to The Times
Before the Fallout From Marie Curie to Hiroshima Diana Preston Walker: 400 pp., $27 * Perhaps the most obvious question historians ask is, "What happened?" Yet as British historian Diana Preston notes in her sixth book, "Before the Fallout," another, more alluring question is "What if?" What if events and fates had unfolded differently? What stories might have been told then?
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Can Women Be Saints in France? :  A push to enter Marie Curie, radioactivity co-discoverer, in the Pantheon
April 2, 1994
When it comes to language, food and cultural patrimony, few nationalities are more inward-looking and resistant to change than the French. So it is unsurprising that in the two centuries since the Pantheon in Paris was dedicated during the French Revolution "Aux Grand Hommes la Patrie reconnaissante," it has served as the mausoleum only for those great men, men to whom the fatherland was grateful.
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Sex and Lies Before Videotape :  Writing and rewriting women's lives :  MARIE CURIE: A Life, By Susan Quinn (Simon & Schuster: $30; 509 pp.)
May 21, 1995 | Catherine Caufield, Catherine Caufield is the author of "Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age" (University of Chicago Press, 1990). She is currently writing a book about the World Bank
There is a phase in every girl's life when, yearning to live heroically, she immerses herself in biographies of great men and women. Eve Curie's book about her mother, "Madame Curie," is one of the classics of this genre. Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Poland, a country divided between Austria, Germany and Russia. The Sklodowski family, intellectuals and patriots, lived in the Russian Partition, where repression of Polish culture was especially severe.
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A Diagnosis of the Curies :  GRAND OBSESSION Madame Marie Curie and Her World by Rosalynd Pflaum (Doubleday: $22.50; 496 pp, illustrated
February 4, 1990 | Bettyann Kevles
Rosalynd Pflaum's "Grand Obsession: Marie Curie and Her World" is a series of overlapping biographies of Marie and Pierre Curie, their daughter, Irene, and her husband, Frederic Joliot-Curie. All Nobel Laureates, they dominated the field of radioactivity in France during the first half of this century. Feminists will be disappointed.
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PARIS :  Curies Join Elite
April 18, 1995
President Francois Mitterrand will officiate Thursday at the reburial of physicists Pierre and Marie Curie in the Pantheon, the mausoleum of France's most illustrious citizens, making Madame Curie the first woman to be buried there because of her own achievements. Marie Curie, who died in 1937 at age 67, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with her husband for the study of radiation. She also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry, for discovering the elements radium and plutonium.
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History And Herstory
April 3, 1988
The Los Angeles Times Book Review for Sunday, March 13, contained a review by Artelia Court of "Mothers of Invention From the Bra to the Bomb," about women inventors throughout history. I believe that more coverage of women's roles in the flow of history is necessary to more fully understand where society is and how it was developed.      The book and the reviewer, however, fall into lapses that do this cause harm. When I read a sentence such as "Even 'the greatest woman scientist of all time, Marie Curie,' " I despair for understanding.
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Women Scientists
November 18, 1992
Joan Goverman's observations (Commentary, Nov. 11) that women scientists are denied opportunities in a male-dominated profession thereby limiting their chances to win Nobel Prizes are valid but not new. The greatest woman scientist in history knew them well.      Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, was denied membership in the all-male French Academy of Science solely because of her sex. She never wore the Legion of Honor. An atheist, she was reviled by the Catholic Church.
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Find out more about Madam Curie; balloon across North America; life is a big RV on 'Disney'
April 5, 1998 | LEE HARRIS, TIMES WRITER WRITER
Real Kids, Real Adventures (Discovery Channel, Sunday at 10:30 a.m.) highlights the heroic actions and adventures of children from across the United States and Canada. In the premiere, Alex Nicholos, 11, of Colorado Springs, is trapped alone in a runaway hot air balloon after the pilot is swept out by a high wind. With less than two hours of fuel left, the learning-disabled boy has to be "talked" through complicated instructions over the radio.  For ages 6 to 12.
BOOKS
Sex and Lies Before Videotape :  Writing and rewriting women's lives :  MARIE CURIE: A Life, By Susan Quinn (Simon & Schuster: $30; 509 pp.)
May 21, 1995 | Catherine Caufield, Catherine Caufield is the author of "Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age" (University of Chicago Press, 1990). She is currently writing a book about the World Bank
There is a phase in every girl's life when, yearning to live heroically, she immerses herself in biographies of great men and women. Eve Curie's book about her mother, "Madame Curie," is one of the classics of this genre. Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Poland, a country divided between Austria, Germany and Russia. The Sklodowski family, intellectuals and patriots, lived in the Russian Partition, where repression of Polish culture was especially severe.
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France Entombs Madame Curie Among the 'Great Men' :  Europe: Nobel Prize-winning scientist who faced sexism in life is placed in Pantheon with her husband, Pierre.
April 21, 1995 | SCOTT KRAFT, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Marie Curie, who won two Nobel Prizes but battled discrimination in the male-dominated scientific community, was installed with her husband, Pierre, in the Pantheon on Thursday, becoming the first woman, on her own merit, to be entombed with the "great men" of the French republic. To the elegiac music of violins, the Curies' simple oak caskets were carried on the shoulders of young science students down a long, white carpet to the steps of the nation's most sanctified final resting place.
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PARIS :  Curies Join Elite
April 18, 1995
President Francois Mitterrand will officiate Thursday at the reburial of physicists Pierre and Marie Curie in the Pantheon, the mausoleum of France's most illustrious citizens, making Madame Curie the first woman to be buried there because of her own achievements. Marie Curie, who died in 1937 at age 67, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with her husband for the study of radiation. She also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry, for discovering the elements radium and plutonium.
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Marie Curie
April 15, 1994
Re "Can Women Be Saints in France?" editorial, April 2:      Here is the opportunity for the French Academy of Sciences to correct its error. It is about time that this courageous and brilliant woman was included in the Pantheon. Marie Sklodowska-Curie is truly among the giants of science.      The first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in science (physics and chemistry), she revolutionized the way we view the universe in a profound way and brought us into the Nuclear Age. Give her the honor she merits.
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Can Women Be Saints in France? :  A push to enter Marie Curie, radioactivity co-discoverer, in the Pantheon
April 2, 1994
When it comes to language, food and cultural patrimony, few nationalities are more inward-looking and resistant to change than the French. So it is unsurprising that in the two centuries since the Pantheon in Paris was dedicated during the French Revolution "Aux Grand Hommes la Patrie reconnaissante," it has served as the mausoleum only for those great men, men to whom the fatherland was grateful.
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The Nation
November 2, 1986
The state of Colorado and Union Carbide Co. have submitted to a judge a $40-million plan to clean up a uranium processing site at Uravan, Colo., that produced radium for early experiments by Marie Curie and for the first atomic bomb. More recently, it produced fuel for nuclear reactors. The 15-year plan calls for burying 12 million tons of radioactive dirt and refuse in clay-lined pits, which would then be covered with a layer of crushed granite and clay, effectively sealing the pits.
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France Entombs Madame Curie Among the 'Great Men' :  Europe: Nobel Prize-winning scientist who faced sexism in life is placed in Pantheon with her husband, Pierre.
April 21, 1995 | SCOTT KRAFT, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Marie Curie, who won two Nobel Prizes but battled discrimination in the male-dominated scientific community, was installed with her husband, Pierre, in the Pantheon on Thursday, becoming the first woman, on her own merit, to be entombed with the "great men" of the French republic. To the elegiac music of violins, the Curies' simple oak caskets were carried on the shoulders of young science students down a long, white carpet to the steps of the nation's most sanctified final resting place.
Women Scientists
November 18, 1992
Joan Goverman's observations (Commentary, Nov. 11) that women scientists are denied opportunities in a male-dominated profession thereby limiting their chances to win Nobel Prizes are valid but not new. The greatest woman scientist in history knew them well.      Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, was denied membership in the all-male French Academy of Science solely because of her sex. She never wore the Legion of Honor. An atheist, she was reviled by the Catholic Church.
BOOKS
A Diagnosis of the Curies :  GRAND OBSESSION Madame Marie Curie and Her World by Rosalynd Pflaum (Doubleday: $22.50; 496 pp, illustrated
February 4, 1990 | Bettyann Kevles
Rosalynd Pflaum's "Grand Obsession: Marie Curie and Her World" is a series of overlapping biographies of Marie and Pierre Curie, their daughter, Irene, and her husband, Frederic Joliot-Curie. All Nobel Laureates, they dominated the field of radioactivity in France during the first half of this century. Feminists will be disappointed.