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Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium
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Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like...
Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
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- Creator
- Carla Killough McClafferty
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- 1st ed
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006
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- 134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0374380368, 9780374380366
- OCLC
- ocm56685110
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.
- Beginnings -- Governess -- Pierre -- Discovery -- Fame -- Trouble -- Scandal -- War -- Danger -- Endings -- Legacy -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Recommended web sites -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index
Subjects
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
- Radium.
- Chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
- Women chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
- Physicists -- Poland -- Biography.
- Women physicists -- Poland -- Biography.
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
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- Scientists.
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- Women scientists.
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- Radium.
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- Women -- Biography.
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