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1) Marie Curie

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Krull, Kathleen

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Traces the life and work of the Polish-born scientist whose study of radioactivity lead to her receiving two Nobel Prizes.

2) Marie Curie for kids: her life and scientific discoveries, with 21 activities and experiments

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O'Quinn, Amy M

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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...

3) Marie Curie: the woman behind radioactivity

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Dickmann, Nancy

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"Scientist Marie Curie discovered radioactivity. What were the steps Curie took which lead her to this world-changing discovery?"--

4) Marie Curie

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Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel

5) Who was Marie Curie?

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Stine, Megan

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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.)...