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PIERRE CURIE SEEKS APPOINTMENT TO THE SORBONNE UPON HIS 1903 NOBEL PRIZE. CURIE, PIERRE. 1859-1906. Autograph Letter Signed ("P. Curie") to Paul Appell ("Cher Doyen") making arrangements to discuss an appointment to the Sorbonne following his 1903 Nobel Prize,
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PIERRE CURIE SEEKS APPOINTMENT TO THE SORBONNE UPON HIS 1903 NOBEL PRIZE.
CURIE, PIERRE. 1859-1906. Autograph Letter Signed ("P. Curie") to Paul Appell ("Cher Doyen") making arrangements to discuss an appointment to the Sorbonne following his 1903 Nobel Prize, 1 p, 142 x 111 mm, on pre-printed Carte Pneumatique, postmarked Paris, December 18, 1903, addressed by Curie to the verso "Monsieur Appel / Doyen de la Faculte...," with his return address, "Curie / 108 Rd Kellerman."
A NOTE FROM CURIE JUST A WEEK AFTER THE NOBEL PRIZE TO PAUL APPELL OF THE SORBONNE BEGINNING THEIR LONG SOUGHT AFTER DISCUSSIONS REGARDING A PROFESSORSHIP AND A LABORATORY. Since the late 1890s, Pierre Curie had sought a laboratory and a position with Paul Appell at the Sorbonne. In June of 1903, when Appell called to allow Curie to be put forth for a prestigious Legion of Honor award in 1898, Curie had responded, "... I do not feel the slightest need of being decorated, but I am in the greatest need of a laboratory." Remarkably, he and Marie Curie had performed their world shattering experiments on radiation in a makeshift stable, which they had adapted into an unlikely laboratory. As their renown spread, German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald had paid a visit to see firsthand their new element. The Curies were out, but Ostwald was pleased to be allowed to see the laboratory which had produced such brilliant work. He recalled, "At my earnest request, I was shown the laboratory where radium had been discovered shortly before ... It was a cross between a stable and a potato shed, and if I had not seen the worktable and items of chemical apparatus, I would have thought that I was been played a practical joke." Ultimately, following the Nobel Prize awarded to he and Marie, Pierre Curie accepted a professorship at the Sorbonne from Appell in 1904, but not before turning down Appell's initial offer, which did not provide for a lab. Unfortunately, the promised laboratory still had not been completed at the time of Pierre Curie's unfortunate accidental death in 1906.
A NOTE FROM CURIE JUST A WEEK AFTER THE NOBEL PRIZE TO PAUL APPELL OF THE SORBONNE BEGINNING THEIR LONG SOUGHT AFTER DISCUSSIONS REGARDING A PROFESSORSHIP AND A LABORATORY. Since the late 1890s, Pierre Curie had sought a laboratory and a position with Paul Appell at the Sorbonne. In June of 1903, when Appell called to allow Curie to be put forth for a prestigious Legion of Honor award in 1898, Curie had responded, "... I do not feel the slightest need of being decorated, but I am in the greatest need of a laboratory." Remarkably, he and Marie Curie had performed their world shattering experiments on radiation in a makeshift stable, which they had adapted into an unlikely laboratory. As their renown spread, German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald had paid a visit to see firsthand their new element. The Curies were out, but Ostwald was pleased to be allowed to see the laboratory which had produced such brilliant work. He recalled, "At my earnest request, I was shown the laboratory where radium had been discovered shortly before ... It was a cross between a stable and a potato shed, and if I had not seen the worktable and items of chemical apparatus, I would have thought that I was been played a practical joke." Ultimately, following the Nobel Prize awarded to he and Marie, Pierre Curie accepted a professorship at the Sorbonne from Appell in 1904, but not before turning down Appell's initial offer, which did not provide for a lab. Unfortunately, the promised laboratory still had not been completed at the time of Pierre Curie's unfortunate accidental death in 1906.