1867-1934

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1867-1934

Pierre and Marie Curie

2015
Two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie did more to promote women in science than perhaps any other person. She met Pierre, a brilliant scientist, by chance. After they were married, they worked side by side, leading to the discoveries of polonium and radium as well as many other crucial scientific finds.

Marie Curie and her daughters

the private lives of science's first family
2013
Describes the lives of Marie Curie and her daughters. Nobel Prize winner and radiation pioneer Marie Curie was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII.

Marie Curie

2009
Presents a short biography on the life and career of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and provides information on her discovery of the element radium that helped to unlock the mysteries of the atom.

Caleb Davis Bradham

Pepsi-Cola inventor
2015
A biography of Caleb Davis Bradham the creator of Pepsi-Cola.

Marie Curie

more than meets the eye
1998
On the lookout for German spies during World War I, two young Parisian sisters instead discover the lifesaving research efforts of Madame Curie.

Curie

Marie Curie
2007
Examines the life of Polish scientist Marie Curie, written in graphic novel format, that profiles her childhood and love of science, her discovery of radium, and the many challenges she faced in her lifetime.

Marie Curie

1974

Marie Curie

2006
Presents a profile of nineteenth-century scientist Marie Curie, who, with her husband Pierre, discovered the element radium, discussing her childhood in Poland, her education, and the significance of her work in physics.

Grand obsession

Madame Curie and her world
1989

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