Who Was Marie Curie?
Paperback
Rs 479
| Genre: | Children |
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| Language: | English |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780448478968 |
| ISBN10: | 044847896X |
| Pages: | 112 |
| Dimensions: | 5.31 x 7.64 x 0.28 inches |
| Weight: | 89.87 g |
| Published: | August 07, 2014 |
| Edition: | 10 |
About the Book
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.