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.
| ISBN: | 9780448478968 |
| Publication date: | 6th October 2014 |
| Author: | Megan Stine |
| Illustrator: | Ted Hammond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Workshop an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Who Was? |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography Educational: Chemistry Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women Science |