chemists

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chemists

Linus Pauling

advancing science, advocating peace
2004
Profiles the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who described the nature of chemical bonds, made important discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, immunology, and evolution, and used his scientific fame to help advance political causes.

Marie Curie

2008
Examines how Marie Curie overcame major obstacles, discovered radium, and became one of history's greatest scientists.

Marie Curie

mother of modern physics
2009
A biography of Marie Curie, whose discovery of radium changed science and the world, and describes her childhood, education, and the hardships she faced in her professional life.

Marie Curie

1994
Tells the life story of Marie Curie, discoverer of radium and winner of the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry.

Gertrude Elion

Nobel prize winner in physiology and medicine
2004
A biography of the woman who used her understanding of chemistry to help develop medicines and who devoted her life to helping others.

Lavoisier in the year one

the birth of a new science in an age of revolution
2005
Presents a biography of the life of eighteenth-century French scientist Antoine Lavoisier who laid the foundation for the understanding of modern chemistry.

Linus Pauling

scientist and advocate
1994
Discusses the life and work of scientist and champion of world peace, Linus Pauling.

Marie Curie

1990
A biography of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband Pierre, was awarded a 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium.

Marie Curie

Nobel prize-winning physicist
1997
Discusses the life of Marie Curie, whose work in physics helped to change the world.

Marie Curie

1991
A biography of the Polish-born scientist, focusing on her struggle to get an education, her discovery of radium and radiation, her Nobel prizes, and the marriage to her collaborator, Pierre Curie.

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