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...
Women chemists
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Rotten Peaches is a gripping epic filled with disturbing and unforgettable insights into the human condition. Love, lust, race and greed. How far will you go? Two women. Two men. One happy ending. It takes place in Canada, the U.S. and...
- Auteur:Krull, KathleenSommaire:
Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning, from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. But her work, which led to the atomic age in science, was also her salvation.
- Auteur:Sherman, SusanSommaire:
In the early 1900s, a young woman escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a domestic servant and finds the world opening to her through her connection with the scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.
- Auteur:Meltzer, BradSommaire:
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times bestselling book biography series about heroes. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our...
- Auteur:Cantor, JillianSommaire:
In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marie left Poland for Paris, where...