TITLE:
Who was Marie Curie? / by Megan Stine ; illustrated by Ted Hammond.
By:
Publication Date:
2014
Publication Information:
New York : Grosset & Dunlap,
Physical Description:
106 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780448478968
