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CURIE, Pierre (1859-1906)

Lot 92
29.10.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1317688
Lot 92 | CURIE, Pierre (1859-1906)
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€ 1 200 – 1 800
CURIE, Pierre (1859-1906)
Lettre autographe signée ("P Curie") au professeur Carl Julius Salomonsen. Paris, le 15 novembre 1903.

1 p. in-12 oblong (90 x 142 mm), à l'encre noire, sur une moitié de carte-réponse internationale. Au verso, l'adresse du destinataire est ainsi probablement de la main de Salomonsen.

Intéressante lettre adressée par Pierre Curie à Carl Julius Salomonsen, le "père de la bactériologie danoise". L'échange épistolaire entre les deux scientifiques se produit quelques semaines avant la cérémonie officielle de remise du prix Nobel 1903, décerné conjointement à Pierre et Marie Curie pour "leurs recherches communes sur les phénomènes de radiation découverts par le Professeur Henri Becquerel".
Curie répond d'abord à l'envoi d'un livre de Salomonsen, qu'il indique ne pas encore avoir reçu. Le reste de la lettre répond à des questions de Salomonsen, justement à propos du radium. Le chercheur danois cherche en effet à s'en procurer, dans le but de mener ses propres expériences, en particulier sur les effets physiologiques du radium et des radiations sur le sang. Quelques mois plus tard, il co-signa un compte-rendu avec G. Dreyer, sur les "effets physiologiques du radium" (13 juin 1904).

An interesting letter from Pierre Curie to Carl Julius Salomonsen, "the father of Danish bacteriology", written mere weeks before Curie was awarded the Nobel prize. Curie replies to Salomonsen's inquiry regarding radium - the Danish scientist is looking to acquire some, probably to do his own experimentations. A few months later, Salomonsen and G. Dreyer would publish an article about radium and the effects of radiation on blood.
Place of origin:France
Auction house category:Letters, documents and manuscripts
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