text stringlengths 203 512 | source_url stringclasses 58
values | source_title stringclasses 57
values | source_domain stringclasses 5
values | relevance_score float64 0.2 0.95 | quality_score float64 0.52 0.9 | topics stringlengths 2 84 | character_count int64 203 512 | subject_name stringclasses 1
value | subject_type stringclasses 1
value | extraction_date stringdate 2026-03-08 01:59:27 2026-03-08 01:59:27 | embedding listlengths 384 384 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 69617 *** PIERRE CURIE IN 1906. Hellog Dujardin Dujardin Imp. Ch. Wütmann PIERRE CURIE BY MARIE CURIE Translated by CHARLOTTE AND VERNON KELLOGG WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. WILLIAM BROWN MELONEY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY MARIE CURIE ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPAN... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.231 | 0.864 | [] | 512 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315190 | [
-0.09145160764455795,
0.04869290441274643,
-0.06175380200147629,
-0.02325638011097908,
0.05390256270766258,
0.05152617022395134,
0.011909802444279194,
0.11196643114089966,
-0.011879565194249153,
0.0868568941950798,
-0.009058330208063126,
0.06016263738274574,
0.0600973479449749,
-0.02029955... |
therefore arises whether it be to the advantage of humanity to know the secrets of nature, whether we he sufficiently mature to profit by them, or whether that knowledge may not prove harmful. Take, for instance, the discoveries of Nobel—powerful explosives have made it possible for men to achieve admirable things, but... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.313 | 0.694 | ["war_conflict", "education", "philosophy"] | 431 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315348 | [
0.016996895894408226,
0.09402784705162048,
-0.008659600280225277,
0.06097286194562912,
0.020320119336247444,
0.027389544993638992,
0.04807661101222038,
-0.01946103945374489,
-0.0003421382571104914,
0.11456780135631561,
-0.05734405666589737,
0.0436762310564518,
-0.012375333346426487,
0.0370... |
those great criminals who draw nations into war. I am among those who believe with Nobel that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries." PIERRE CURIE, Nobel Conference, 1903. TRANSLATORS' NOTE The translators wish to acknowledge their obligations to Dr. R. B. Moore, Chief Chemist, U. S. Bureau o... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.68 | 0.72 | ["war_conflict", "education"] | 511 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315424 | [
-0.014510385692119598,
0.017233088612556458,
-0.050801511853933334,
-0.037329208105802536,
0.06641280651092529,
0.029575733467936516,
0.10280799865722656,
0.07616200298070908,
-0.04251207411289215,
0.01644863560795784,
-0.057902783155441284,
-0.013056447729468346,
0.02414034493267536,
-0.0... |
echnical details referred to by Madame Curie in her account of the work of her husband and herself on radium. PREFACE It is not without hesitation that I have undertaken to write the biography of Pierre Curie. I should have preferred confiding this task to some relative or some friend of his infancy who had followed hi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.843 | 0.852 | ["family", "education"] | 431 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315515 | [
-0.02082924358546734,
0.05391964316368103,
0.005706509575247765,
-0.00835181400179863,
-0.029000723734498024,
0.03326744958758354,
-0.01627887412905693,
0.05879667401313782,
-0.07320448756217957,
0.01949208788573742,
-0.08835391700267792,
-0.05855793505907059,
0.018417367711663246,
-0.0889... |
n and how I persuaded Madame Curie to write this book. It is with much hesitancy that I venture to write a preface to this book. She once chided me, in her gentle way, for an article in which I had stated facts with some feeling—although the facts praised her. "In science," she said, "we should be interested in things,... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.869 | 0.878 | ["rhetoric"] | 493 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315592 | [
-0.019683590158820152,
0.010935412719845772,
0.019938137382268906,
0.04176092892885208,
-0.05291030928492546,
0.07008074223995209,
0.04878989979624748,
0.004646965302526951,
-0.06885070353746414,
0.001334241940639913,
-0.08141544461250305,
-0.03176076337695122,
0.026923680678009987,
-0.098... |
he autobiographical notes contained in this book. Still, so much has been left unsaid, uninterpreted, that I feel an obligation to say a word toward a fuller understanding of this great and noble character. In 1915 I wrote in my editor's suggestion book: "Greatest woman's story in the world—Marie Curie, discoverer of r... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.867 | 0.856 | ["war_conflict"] | 467 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315658 | [
-0.01260323729366064,
-0.0030286023393273354,
-0.00418098783120513,
0.05503052845597267,
-0.005038600414991379,
0.040681060403585434,
-0.024090982973575592,
0.061219893395900726,
-0.04941534623503685,
0.026539191603660583,
-0.07249676436185837,
0.03408452495932579,
0.05435258895158768,
-0.... |
the front, relieving suffering and saving lives. In May, 1919, another mission took me to Paris and I resolved to see Madame Curie myself. My friend, Stéphane Lauzanne, Editor-in-Chief of Le Matin , said: "Give it up. Become interested in something else; she will see no one. She does nothing but work." I began to ask q... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.871 | 0.724 | [] | 507 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315682 | [
0.025342417880892754,
0.03736560046672821,
0.009559971280395985,
0.007284078747034073,
0.06949383020401001,
0.032193005084991455,
-0.034697722643613815,
0.03891767933964729,
-0.023587411269545555,
-0.0005569883505813777,
-0.08038786053657532,
0.00018600311886984855,
0.014032701030373573,
-... |
black, with pale hands and high arched forehead. The magnificent forehead won notice first. It was not merely a woman who stood before us, but a brain—a living thought. Her appearance was enthusiastically applauded for five minutes. When the applause died down, Madame Curie bent forward with slightly trembling lips. We... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.378 | 0.706 | ["war_conflict"] | 475 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315705 | [
-0.007032401394098997,
0.07611751556396484,
0.008867988362908363,
-0.010862615890800953,
-0.007678288500756025,
0.09343437105417252,
0.0452767089009285,
-0.007909370586276054,
-0.0065875183790922165,
-0.05498852953314781,
-0.06498558074235916,
-0.07291077077388763,
-0.016810370609164238,
-... |
nd sat a stenographer, ready to record her words. Would she speak of her husband? Would she thank the Minister and the public? No, she began quite simply as follows: "'When we consider the progress made by the theories of radio-activity since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century—' The important thing to this great w... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.874 | ["family", "philosophy"] | 512 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315734 | [
-0.03006902150809765,
0.03280947729945183,
0.06315291672945023,
-0.0030855501536279917,
-0.03209429979324341,
0.016758782789111137,
0.051757875829935074,
-0.03151090443134308,
-0.05296778306365013,
-0.04860563576221466,
-0.032122962176799774,
0.008967427536845207,
-0.00781546626240015,
-0.... |
motion which all but overcame her—except by the extreme pallor of her face and the trembling of her lips—she continued her lecture in clear, well-modulated tones. "It was typical of this great soul that she should carry on their work courageously and without faltering. "You will see," concluded Lauzanne, "it is useless... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.701 | 0.868 | ["interview", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 512 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315771 | [
-0.05113714933395386,
0.024771234020590782,
0.06990960240364075,
0.020638205111026764,
-0.0037672247271984816,
0.011143987067043781,
0.021275542676448822,
0.00023079809034243226,
-0.022258561104536057,
-0.031897589564323425,
-0.08162767440080643,
-0.04853658378124237,
-0.021523039788007736,
... |
eed with Lauzanne that an interview was impossible. Finally, however, he promised to carry a letter to Madame Curie. I wrote ten letters and destroyed them. In one I said: "My father, who was a medical man, wrote: 'It is impossible to exaggerate the unimportance of people.' But you have been important to me for twenty ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.846 | 0.874 | ["interview", "economy", "family"] | 462 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315808 | [
-0.09338139742612839,
0.12481150031089783,
0.07583338767290115,
-0.012800182215869427,
0.011070910841226578,
-0.05313434079289436,
0.008140835911035538,
0.00407547177746892,
-0.016787709668278694,
-0.07834234833717346,
-0.05492452159523964,
-0.04378659650683403,
-0.016587093472480774,
-0.1... |
he laboratory the next morning. I had been in Mr. Edison's laboratory a few weeks before sailing from home. Edison is rich in the material things—as he should be. Every kind of equipment is at his command. He is a power in the financial as well as the scientific world. In my childhood I had lived near Alexander Graham ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.89 | ["economy", "family"] | 512 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315840 | [
-0.020251912996172905,
0.08401636779308319,
0.08659705519676208,
0.06109049916267395,
-0.022303922101855278,
-0.051067035645246506,
0.02494046837091446,
0.00711215240880847,
-0.10831952840089798,
-0.016855433583259583,
0.003272994887083769,
0.024282054975628853,
0.00014704899513162673,
-0.... |
e stacks of the greatest radium reduction plants in the world. I remembered that millions of dollars had been spent on radium watches and radium gun sights. Several millions of dollars' worth of radium was even then stored in various parts of the United States. I had been prepared to meet a woman of the world, enriched... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.645 | 0.86 | [] | 451 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315865 | [
0.010334807448089123,
0.1146320328116417,
0.002694949507713318,
0.07099268585443497,
0.07994285970926285,
-0.04448201507329941,
0.04097859933972359,
0.07338713109493256,
-0.03938257321715355,
0.05750849097967148,
-0.006902176886796951,
-0.02423601597547531,
0.02902965061366558,
-0.04058435... |
y ease, Madame Curie began to talk about America. She had for many years wanted to visit my country, but she could not be separated from her children. "America," she said, "has about fifty grammes of radium. Four of these are in Baltimore, six in Denver, seven in New York." She went on naming the location of every grai... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.732 | ["economy", "family"] | 509 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315897 | [
0.011232737451791763,
-0.010583830066025257,
0.025609174743294716,
0.008493009023368359,
-0.023195911198854446,
-0.00547474529594183,
0.023415308445692062,
0.07357987016439438,
-0.061431702226400375,
-0.03305888548493385,
-0.014134982600808144,
-0.09216878563165665,
-0.0020846426486968994,
... |
tion, perhaps, but as it happened, a fateful one. "You ought to have everything in the world you need to go on with your work," I said. "Some one must undertake this." "Who will?" she asked rather hopelessly. "The women of America," I promised—and then I rose to go. That week I learned that the market price of a gramme... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.878 | ["economy"] | 512 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315921 | [
-0.08413580805063248,
0.029525363817811012,
-0.03380011394619942,
0.03479832783341408,
0.007803603541105986,
-0.019960815086960793,
0.017494123429059982,
0.04250026494264603,
-0.07600508630275726,
0.04001326113939285,
-0.0422886461019516,
-0.04272083193063736,
0.030012056231498718,
-0.0558... |
ufficient equipment; that the radium held there was used at that time only for extracting emanations for hospital use in cancer treatment. I saw Madame Curie at the Institute again and then in her own home—a small apartment in the Ile St. Louis, where she lived with her two daughters. It was a happy, busy little family... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.44 | 0.872 | ["family"] | 500 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315943 | [
-0.03964075446128845,
0.09509257227182388,
-0.02462603896856308,
-0.0046137175522744656,
0.012758497148752213,
0.008188867010176182,
-0.0203646719455719,
0.059513743966817856,
-0.08265553414821625,
0.053588688373565674,
0.007918898947536945,
0.036694761365652084,
0.07156351208686829,
-0.08... |
ears since that scene at the University of Paris. These years had been spent in her laboratory; she had made no public appearance. It was in March, 1921, that Monsieur Lauzanne heard her voice again. "I lifted the telephone receiver," he relates, "and heard these words: 'Madame Curie wishes to speak to you.' What extra... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.876 | ["economy", "education"] | 512 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.315979 | [
-0.08828980475664139,
0.0028739359695464373,
0.029958397150039673,
-0.04534600302577019,
-0.044390395283699036,
0.031551193445920944,
0.03635451942682266,
0.023185130208730698,
0.008584938943386078,
-0.055434875190258026,
-0.0048671988770365715,
0.05114203318953514,
0.011558863334357738,
-... |
before, but which had stayed in my memory—the same voice which had once pronounced the words, 'When we consider the progress made by the theories of radio-activity since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century——' "'I wanted to tell you that I am going to America,' she said. 'It was very hard for me to decide to go, bec... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.79 | 0.892 | ["decision_making"] | 505 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.316012 | [
0.06796088814735413,
-0.04303742200136185,
-0.03466086834669113,
-0.0058860015124082565,
0.019817404448986053,
0.042753033339977264,
0.06446494907140732,
-0.05952305719256401,
-0.013069720938801765,
-0.03969215974211693,
-0.02255484089255333,
0.0565531887114048,
0.08165793120861053,
-0.013... |
rightened. But to this fear is added a great joy. I have devoted my life to the science of radio-activity and I know all we owe to America in the field of science. I am told you are among those who strongly favor this distant trip, so I wanted to tell you I have decided to go, but please don't let any one know about it... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.803 | 0.862 | ["communication", "decision_making"] | 433 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.316046 | [
0.09131582081317902,
0.03669985756278038,
0.04352860525250435,
0.05280546098947525,
0.07795879244804382,
0.018396545201539993,
0.08185569196939468,
-0.020315105095505714,
-0.05953356623649597,
-0.055796489119529724,
-0.024208230897784233,
-0.02174278348684311,
0.04967978969216347,
-0.07279... |
ris, she came forth with the great gift of radium to mankind. Scientists will go on adding to the bibliography of the marvelous element. But of Marie Curie herself, the woman, it is unlikely that the world will ever read more than the brief notes which compose this small book. It is her conviction, her philosophy, that... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.719 | 0.876 | ["family", "philosophy"] | 512 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.316077 | [
-0.049405526369810104,
0.029038680717349052,
0.0344545803964138,
0.013823549263179302,
0.043413884937763214,
0.01142569724470377,
0.03569083660840988,
0.060913458466529846,
-0.038237519562244415,
0.043927572667598724,
-0.04951203241944313,
-0.02711975947022438,
0.0446709543466568,
-0.12790... |
ie's parents, who were educated and intelligent, formed a part of the petite bourgeoisie of small means. They did not frequent fashionable society, but confined themselves entirely to the companionship of their relatives and a few intimate friends. Eugène Curie, Pierre's father, was a physician and the son of a physici... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.629 | 0.862 | ["family", "philosophy"] | 490 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.316112 | [
0.06339481472969055,
0.05446261540055275,
0.03619640693068504,
-0.026656484231352806,
0.005083415657281876,
-0.019865607842803,
0.03301467373967171,
0.015004273504018784,
0.011378925293684006,
0.02305305190384388,
0.06032666563987732,
-0.05065397173166275,
0.02216145396232605,
-0.144774720... |
d and children by her activity and her good will. If the circumstances in which Jacques and Pierre grew up were modest and not free from cares, nevertheless there reigned in the family an atmosphere of gentleness and affection. In speaking to me for the first time of his parents, Pierre Curie said that they were "exqui... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie. | gutenberg.org | 0.376 | 0.856 | ["family", "communication", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 464 | Marie Curie | personality | 2026-03-08T01:59:27.316149 | [
-0.018299128860235214,
0.07324715703725815,
0.084922194480896,
0.019432418048381805,
-0.0001283860474359244,
0.009386745281517506,
0.0410444512963295,
0.02950918860733509,
0.0302890632301569,
-0.002615117933601141,
0.029603388160467148,
-0.0020620718132704496,
0.003615480614826083,
-0.0725... |
End of preview. Expand in Data Studio
Marie-Curie-Agent
This corpus was automatically generated by the Deku Corpus Builder for use in RAG-based AI applications.
Dataset Structure
Each record contains:
text: The content textsource_url: Original source URLsource_title: Title of the source documentsource_domain: Domain of the sourcerelevance_score: Relevance to the subject (0-1)quality_score: Content quality score (0-1)topics: JSON array of detected topicscharacter_count: Length of the textsubject_name: The subject this content relates tosubject_type: "personality" or "topic"extraction_date: When the content was extractedembedding: Pre-computed 384-dimensional embedding vector
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("PhillyMac/Marie_Curie_Corpus")
# Access the data
for item in dataset["train"]:
print(item["text"][:100])
Integration with RAG
This dataset is designed to be integrated with existing embedded corpuses. The embeddings use the sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model, compatible with FAISS indexing.
License
Content is sourced from public domain and Creative Commons licensed materials.
Generated By
Deku Corpus Builder - An automated corpus building system for AI applications.
- Downloads last month
- 15