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3) Marie Curie
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Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the chemist whose work with radium laid the foundation for much of today's scientific knowledge.
4) Marie Curie
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Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the Polish-born chemist, discussing her methods of scientific research, discovery of radium, and its use as a treatment for cancer.
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English
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"Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Marie later won another Nobel for chemistry in 1911.)...
6) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Krull presents another top-notch scientific biography in the outstanding Giants of Science series.
As in previous series entries, this offering manages to take a wildly complex subject-atomic physics-and render it comprehensible to the child listener, emphasizing the legacy Curie left behind. Curie's personal life-her unusual (for the times) partnership with her husband, her frustration with the limitations imposed on her because of her sex, her...
11) Marie Curie
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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Meet Marie Curie --- Nobel laureate and world famous scientist. Marie was the first woman to win the world's top science prize --- and the first person to win it twice. The story of her discoveries, including the metals polonium and radium, and her contribution to the study of radiation is told in level-appropriate language and detailed illustrations. This Level 3 reader contains longer, more complex stories and sentences, more challenging vocabulary,...
12) Marie Curie
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
15) Marie Curie
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the life and work of scientist Marie Cure"--
16) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish scientist whose work with radium helped to change the world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Marie Curie, renowned for her work on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win in two fields (chemistry and physics), and the first woman to hold a chair position at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie for Kids details Curie's remarkable life, from her childhood under a repressive czar in Poland to her tireless work supporting herself through college to meeting her ideal match in scientist Pierre Curie to her revolutionary...
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