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1) Marie Curie
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Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered.
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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.)...
4) Marie Curie
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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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Biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish scientist whose work with radium helped to change the world.
8) Marie Curie
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A biography of the chemist whose work with radium laid the foundation for much of today's scientific knowledge.
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"Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)-- she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist--and was determined to make that dream come true."--
11) Marie Curie
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The story of Marie Curie, the revolutionary scientist and Nobel Prize winner.
13) Mārī Kūrī
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Explores the childhood of Marie Curie, who overcame adversity to become one of the most respected scientists in the world.
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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...