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: Megan Stine, Who Hq
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 08/07/2014
Series: Who Was?
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.38w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780448478968

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
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