Radioactive Substances: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Radioactive Substances, credited to Marie Curie, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Radioactive Substances, by Marie Curie. Read by Availle. Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes - in physics (1903) and chemistry (1911). The risks of working with strongly radioactive materials were not known at that time, and she eventually died in 1934 from an illness likely caused by radiation poisoning. Radioactive Substances is the thesis of Marie Curie, presented to the Faculté de Sciences de Paris in 1903, and subsequently published in "Chemical News" vol 88, 1903. Marie Curie gives a detailed description of her research on radioactive substances carried out at the Sorbonne. She details how she obtained the two new elements radium and polonium from pitchblende, explains her numerous experiments and presents measurements of all kinds. (Summary by Availle)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Radioactive Substances
• Author credits: Marie Curie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:56:11

Catalogue topics

• Radioactive Substances
• Marie Curie

Track guide

1. 01 Introduction — 8:39
2. 02 Chapter I: Radioactivity of Uranium and Thorium — 32:29
3. 03 Chapter II: Method of Research, pt 1 — 27:51
4. 04 Chapter II: Method of Research, pt 2 — 21:44
5. 05 Chapter III: Radiation of the New Radioactive Substances, pt 1 — 28:23
6. 06 Chapter III: Radiation of the New Radioactive Substances, pt 2 — 22:39
7. 07 Chapter III: Radiation of the New Radioactive Substances, pt 3 — 37:39
8. 08 Chapter III: Radiation of the New Radioactive Substances, pt 4 — 33:14
9. 09 Chapter IV: Communication of Radioactivity to Substances Initially Inactive, pt 1 — 19:00
10. 10 Chapter IV: Communication of Radioactivity to Substances Initially Inactive, pt 2 — 35:10
11. 11 Chapter IV: Communication of Radioactivity to Substances Initially Inactive, pt 3 — 20:46
12. 12 Nature and Cause of the Phenomena of Radioactivity — 8:41

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