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2) Marie Curie
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Pub. Date
2004.
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48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
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English
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English
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"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.)...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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This illustrated biography explores all of Marie Curie's accomplishments, from her discoveries of radioactivity, polonium, and radium to her Nobel Prize victory and her continuing influence today. Marie Curie coined the term radioactivity, and it is to her and her husband, Pierre Curie, that we owe much of our knowledge of the very fabric of reality. As well as discovering the atomic rather than chemical nature of radioactivity, the Curies isolated...
5) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
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English
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Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two?in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.
6) Marie Curie
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Explores the childhood of Marie Curie, who overcame adversity to become one of the most respected scientists in the world.
7) Marie Curie
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Pub. Date
2020.
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32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie pioneered research in radioactivity and made invaluable contributions to the scientific community. Masterminds readers will learn how influential figures in S.T.E.A.M., like Marie Curie, made massive contributions to their fields and how their stories and discoveries remain relevant today."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 131 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 22 x 29 cm.
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English
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"Marie Curie, renowned for her work on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win in two fields (chemistry and physics), and the first woman to hold a chair position at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie for Kids details Curie's remarkable life, from her childhood under a repressive czar in Poland to her tireless work supporting herself through college to meeting her ideal match in scientist Pierre Curie to her revolutionary...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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381, 12 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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x, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways to treat disease, while imagination blossomed, creating Art Nouveau, motion pictures, and modernist literature. A pivotal figure during this time, yet largely forgotten today, Loie Fuller was an American performance artist who became a living symbol of the Art Nouveau movement with her hypnotic dances...
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English
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Through words and her crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the story of Marie Curie, née Marya Sklodowska, and her working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, including their discovery of two new scientific elements with startling properties-as well as the tragic car accident that killed Pierre, Marie's two Nobel Prizes, and her scandalous affair with a married scientist. And Radioactive looks beyond the contours...
14) The soul of genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the meeting that changed the course of science
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Pub. Date
2021.
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xiv, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the Nobel Prize. Over the course of those few days, these minds began to realize that classical physics was about to give way to quantum theory, a seismic shift in our history and how we understand not just our world, but the universe. At the center of this meeting were...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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63 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Meet Marie Curie. Shy and reserved, she loved science more than anything else in the world. But she lived at a time when women couldn't be scientists. Marie followed her passion and is now remembered for her game-changing discoveries. But while she tinkered away with test tubes and experimented with a glow-in-the-dark chemical elements, Marie became a mother. Irene and Eve grew up to be fiercely independent and determined women just like their mother,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 x 23 cm.
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English
Description
"Marie Curie stunned the scientific world when her research uncovered two elements, polonium and radium. This accessible graphic biography gives readers a look at her collaborations with Pierre Curie, her medical work during World War I, and more."
17) Marie Curie
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Pub. Date
2018.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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The story of Marie Curie, the revolutionary scientist and Nobel Prize winner.
19) If you are there
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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262 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A "coming-of-age story about a young Polish girl and her friendships with Madame Curie and Eusapia Palladino"--
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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v, 122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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English
Description
"A science biography that examines the life and work of Marie Curie and offers kids the opportunity to make their own designs and inventions with hands-on activities"--OCLC.
"In The Science and Technology of Marie Curie, readers ages 9 through 12 explore Curie's groundbreaking scientific research in physics and chemistry and discover how her work forced people to rethink the very structure of the surrounding world... and the role of women within...
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