| Title | : | Who Was Marie Curie? |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Megan Stine, Who HQ & Ted Hammond |
| Release | : | 2014-08-07 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Biographies for Kids, Books, Kids, Science & Nature for Kids |
| Size | : | 23710339 |
| 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. |
