1984 65438+February 10 Curie couple's experimental notes were auctioned.
1984 10 February 10, Derouet auction house in Paris, France auctioned the experimental notes of Maria Skvodovska-Curie, a world-famous Polish physicist, and her husband, Pierre Curie, an outstanding French physicist.
There are two notebooks in this auction, one written by Maria and the other by Pierre.
Pierre added Maria's notes on the experiment of radioactive elements polonium and radium. Pierre's supplement lasted until April, the week before 1906 was run over by a carriage. This notebook *** 130 pages, the price is 220,000 francs.
Pierre's notes on the experiment of radioactive element uranium were supplemented by Maria. This notebook has 78 pages and costs 80,000 francs.
It is reported that these notebooks are still radioactive. Not long ago, determined by Geiger counter, these notebooks emitted 600 to 700 particles per second.
Maria Curie was born in Warsaw on 1867. While studying in France, she married Pierre, a Frenchman, on 1895. She discovered the new elements polonium and radium in 1898. Won the Nobel Prize twice. 1934 died of severe anemia caused by a large amount of radium radiation. The achievements of Curie's cooperation have made outstanding contributions to the development of world science.