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Curie (Marie), ‘Rayon émis par les composes de l’uranium et du thorium’, 1st edition, [contained as pp. 1101-1103 in] Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Science, volume 126, Paris, January-June 1898, together with: Curie (Marie & Pierre). ‘Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende’ [with] Curie (Marie & Pierre & Bemont, Gustave), ‘Sur une nouvelle substance fortemont radio-active contenue dans la pechblende’ [with] Demarcay (Eugene), ‘Sur le spectre d’une substance radio-active’, 1st edition, [contained as pp. 175-178, 1215-1217 & 1218 in] Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Science, volume 127, Paris, July-December 1898, the articles being issues 3 & 26, light water stain to inner margins, inner hinges cracked, both volumes with bookplate of the National Physical Laboratory to front pastedowns, non-matching library cloth, rubbed, 4to The first paper is Marie Curie’s earliest publication on the researches of her husband Pierre and herself, which led to the unique award of two Nobel Prizes. In this paper she describes experiments prompted by discoveries published by Becquerel in the Comptes Rendus two years earlier. Volume 127 contains the first joint publication of Marie and Pierre Curie announcing the discovery of Polonium. The second paper in this volume, co-authored with Pierre’s assistant Gustave Bemont, announces the discovery (and naming) of radium. The third paper by Dermarcay reports finding a new line in the spectrum which confirmed the new element.