Description
Product ID: | 9780448478968 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Who Was? |
Title: | Who Was Marie Curie? |
Authors: | Author: Megan Stine, Ted Hammond, Who HQ |
Page Count: | 112 |
Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, People & places (Children's / Teenage) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 Pierre Curie, and they got married. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. This book tells her story. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Grosset and Dunlap |
Publisher Name: | Grosset and Dunlap |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-08-07 |