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Women in chemistry and physics

a biobibliographic sourcebook
1993
Biographies of the life and career of 75 women scientists worldwide, limited to those deceased or born before 1933.

Marie Curie

Scientists can change the world! Marie Curie discovered two new elements. This title introduces budding scientists and engineers to Marie Curie whose discoveries changed the course of science. Photos and illustrations bring the stories of this great mind to life, and a quiz lets readers test their newfound knowledge. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Who was Marie Curie?

2014
A brief biography of Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie.

Marie Curie

physics and chemistry pioneer

Marie Curie advances the study of radioactivity

2016
Presents an introduction to the life and work of Marie Curie who researched radium with her husband Pierre.

Marie Curie

2016
Presents the biography of Marie Curie, who discovered radium and realized its potential for treating cancer. She succeeded in her work in a time when science and research were not seen as suitable occupations for women.

Marie Curie

2014
Describes the life and work of scientist Marie Curie.

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

brave scientist
2005
A brief biography focusing on the youth of the scientist who twice received the Nobel Prize for her work with radium.

Women in chemistry

2014
Profiles the lives of women in chemistry, from Alice Hamilton to Darleane Hoffman, and explores opportunities for women in the field.

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