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Title Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium / Carla Killough McClafferty.
Author McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958-
Publication Info. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J B CURIE    Check Shelves
 Southeast  J B CURIE    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description 134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-123) and index.
Contents Beginnings -- Governess -- Pierre -- Discovery -- Fame -- Trouble -- Scandal -- War -- Danger -- Endings -- Legacy -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Recommended web sites -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.
Summary Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Radium.
Chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
Women chemists -- Poland -- Biography.
Physicists -- Poland -- Biography.
Women physicists -- Poland -- Biography.
ISBN 0374380368 (hardcover) : $18.00
Standard No. 9780374380366
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