''Treatise on Radioactivity'' () is a two-volume 1910 book written by the Polish

scientist A scientist is a person who Scientific method, researches to advance knowledge in an Branches of science, area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engag ...

Marie Curie Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was List of female ...

as a survey on the subject of

radioactivity Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is conside ...

. 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

Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( ; ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, Radiochemistry, radiochemist, and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, ...

, 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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1910 non-fiction books Physics books Historical physics publications French-language non-fiction books Marie Curie Treatises {{Physics-book-stub