Who Was Marie Curie? - Who Was...

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ted Hammond, Nancy Harrison, Megan Stine, Who HQ
• Assisted by: Ted Hammond (Illustration), Nancy Harrison (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 11
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2014
• EAN: 9780448478968
• ISBN: 978-0-448-47896-8
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 193 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Who Was...?; Who Was?
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology