
Who Was Marie Curie? |
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > Biography & Autobiography > Science & Technology
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Author:
Stine, Megan
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Illustrator::
Ted Hammond
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ISBN 10:
044847896X
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ISBN 13:
9780448478968
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Price:
USD $5.99
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Publication Year:
2014
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Publisher Info
Penguin Random House. InquiryBook 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.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.