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Author:

McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958-

Title:

Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium / Carla Killough McClafferty.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Farrar Straus Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Curie, Marie,--1867-1934.
Radium.
Chemists--Poland--Biography.
Women chemists--Poland--Biography.
Physicists--Poland--Biography.
Women physicists--Poland--Biography.
Curie, Marie,--1867-1934.
Scientists.
Women scientists.
Radium.
Women--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-123) and index.

Contents:

Beginnings -- Governess -- Pierre -- Discovery -- Fame -- Trouble -- Scandal -- War -- Danger -- Endings -- Legacy -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Recommended web sites -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.

Summary:

Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.

ISBN:

9780374380366 (hardcover)
0374380368 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56685110

LCCN:

2004056414

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