chemists

A brief, illustrated, biography of Marie Curie, providing information on her childhood, family life, education, and achievements, including her joint Nobel Prize for physics with her husband in 1903 and a Nobel Prize for chemistry.

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.

Presents the life stories of Marie Curie, dicoverer of radium, polonium, and natural radiation, and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie, discoverer of artificial radiation.

A biography of the Polish-born chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903 for the discovery of radium.

Gives biographies of twelve chemists who made historic discoveries in the field. Includes such scientists as Antoine Lavoisier, Linus Pauling and Louis Pasteur.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Polish-born scientist Marie Curie, discussing the challenges she faced as a woman in the field of chemistry, and looking at her pioneering work in radiology.

Examines the life and works of nineteenth-century scientist and creator of the periodic table of elements, Dmitry Mendeleyev, and discusses his experiments and theories and his influence upon the world of science.

Profiles German chemist Otto Hahn, whose research into radioactivity led to the discovery of nuclear fission and, despite his opposition, to the development of the atomic bomb.

Details the life and work of Marie Curie from early childhood to the discovery of radium and her two Nobel Prizes.