Who Was Marie Curie? (Who Was?)

by Megan Stine (Author) Ted Hammond (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: 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.

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Classification
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ISBN-13
9780448478968
Lexile Measure
690
Guided Reading Level
S
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
August 07, 2014
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
Library of Congress categories
History
France
Poland
Curie, Marie
Women chemists
Radioactivity

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