Who Was Marie Curie
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Who Was Marie Curie
By (Author) Megan Stine
By (author) Who HQ
Illustrated by Ted Hammond
Grosset and Dunlap
Grosset and Dunlap
7th August 2014
United States
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: History and the past
540.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 135mm, Height 194mm, Spine 6mm
125g
Description
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.
Author Bio
Megan Stine has written several biographies for young readers, includingWho Is Michelle Obama and Who Was Sally Ride She lives in Clinton, Connecticut.
