Who Was Marie Curie?

by Megan Stine

2020-05-15 02:57:37

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 ... Read more
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. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation. Less

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File size7.74x5.38x0.25inches
Print pages112
PublisherPenguin Workshop
Publication date August 1, 2014
ISBN9780448478968
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Megan Stine has written several young biographies, including Who Was Sally Ride?....

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