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Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium

Title

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

Author

McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958-

Publication

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2006.

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Description

134 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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.

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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.

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