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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.
Info
ISBN: 9780448478968
Published Date: August 7, 2014
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Language: English
Page Count: 106
Size: 7.63" l x 5.27" w x 0.27" h
Age Classification: Ages 9 to 12
Category
Tweens Nonfiction