EditorialMiscellany: equipment for button-making, glazing cloth, gun flints, George Smart's chimney cleansing machine, and crystallography. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literat...
EditorialPierre Curie (1859-1906). French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Salomea Sklodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
EditorialPierre Curie (1859 - 1906), French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the...