Curie, Marie (1867-1934), and Curie, Pierre (1859-1906)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.1978-1979
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Curie, Marie (1867-1934), and Curie, Pierre (1859-1906)
Date(s)	: 1899-1932
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Curie | Marie | 1867-1934 | née Sklodowska | scientist Curie | Pierre | 1859-1906 | scientist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Notebooks of Marie and Pierre Curie comprising holograph note-book containing notes of experiments, etc on radio-active substances, with rough pen-drawings of apparatus, 27 May 1899-4 Dec 1902, produced in Paris and notebook incomplete entitled 'Les rayons, a,b,g des corps radioactifs en relation avec la structure nucléaire' illustrated with a few rough pen-drawn diagrams, produced in Paris.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
French

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Collection description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in two accessions: purchased, 1932 and presented, 1934.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009