Book cover for Marie Curie
Description
Talk about a ?glowing reputation?! Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel prize but two'in physics and in chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences. As with her previous star-studded biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Sigmund Freud'all three chosen as ALA Notable Books?Kathleen Krull offers readers a fascinating portrait of this mythic ?giant of science? who abhorred publicity. And she also places Curie's ground-breaking discovery of two elements within the framework of science at that time.

Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
ISBN10 0670058947
ISBN13 9780670058945
Number of Pages 144
File Size DL-44MB
Shelf Number JS399
Grade Range 4 - 12
Ages 10 - 19
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download