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Something out of Nothing : : Marie Curie and Radium

McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958- Book - 2006 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3 out of 5

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Beginnings -- Governess -- Pierre -- Discovery -- Fame -- Trouble -- Scandal -- War -- Danger -- Endings -- Legacy -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Recommended web sites -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1050

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0374380368

SUBJECTS
Curie, Marie, -- 1867-1934.
Radium.
Chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
Women chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
Physicists -- Poland -- Biography.
Women physicists -- Poland -- Biography.