Who Was Marie Curie?

by Megan Stine, Who HQ, Ted Hammond (Illustrator)

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780448478968
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	08/07/2014
Series:	Who Was? Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	27,964
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Megan Stine has written several biographies for young readers, including Who Is Michelle Obama? and Who Was Sally Ride? She lives in Clinton, Connecticut.