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Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Marie Curie became one of the most celebrated scientists in history. Before she changed the world with her discoveries in physics and chemistry, Marie was an intelligent girl who studied hard to reach the top of her class. She overcame many challenges, including people who told her she couldn't be a scientist because she was a woman. She didn't let anything stop her, and her important research is still helping people today. Explore how Marie Curie...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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.)...
Series
Publisher
Button Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"You may already know that Marie Curie was a scientific genius who pioneered the study of radioactivity, but did you know that she saved soldiers using X-rays in World War One? Or that her surviving notebooks are so radioactive you can only look at them at your own risk? This graphic retelling of Curie's story gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world she grew up in, while educating them on everything from how radioactivity works...
4) Marie curie
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. The book follows Marie Curie, whose love of learning helped her to revolutionize the fight against cancer with her discovery of radium and polonium. This inspiring and informative little biography comes with extra facts...
6) Marie Curie
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of Marie Curie, the revolutionary scientist and Nobel Prize winner.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)-- she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist--and was determined to make that dream come true."--
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