''Treatise on Radioactivity'' (french: Traité de Radioactivité) is a two-volume 1910 book written by the

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as a survey on the subject of radioactivity. She was awarded her second

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in the following year after the publication of the book. The book, which was dedicated to her newly deceased collaborator and husband

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, has been described as "a classic synthesis of current research on radioactivity by scientists of the early 20th century."http://library.brown.edu/exhibit/exhibits/show/evolution-of-chemistry/modern-chemistry----/marie-curie It was published by the Paris publisher Gauthier-Villars.

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*https://archive.org/details/traitderadioac01curi *https://archive.org/details/traitderadioac02curi 1910 non-fiction books Physics books Historical physics publications French-language books Marie Curie Treatises {{Physics-book-stub