Who Was Marie Curie

Author : Megan Stine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 044847896X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was Marie Curie? written by Megan Stine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

Author : Susan Quinn
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Curie: A Life written by Susan Quinn and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Curie was long idealized as a selfless and dedicated scientist, not entirely of this world. But Quinn's Marie Curie is, on the contrary, a woman of passion — born in Warsaw under the repressive regime of the Russian czars, outspokenly committed to the cause of a free Poland, deeply in love with her husband Pierre but also, after his tragic death, capable of loving a second time and of standing up against the cruel, xenophobic attacks which resulted from that love. This biography gives a full and lucid account of Marie and Pierre Curie’s scientific discoveries, placing them within the revelatory discoveries of the age. At the same time, it provides a vivid account of Marie Curie’s practical genius: the X-Ray mobiles she created to save French soldiers' lives during World War I, as well as her remarkable ability to raise funds and create a laboratory that drew researchers to Paris from all over the world. It is a story which transforms Marie Curie from an bloodless icon into a woman of passion and courage. "Quinn's portrait of Curie is rich and captivating. Quinn strives to peel back... layers of myth and idealization that have grown up around the physicist... She succeeds beautifully. Quinn has written a worthy successor to her previous work, the award-winning biography of American psychiatrist Karen Horney." — Washington Post Book World (page 1) "A touching, three-dimensional portrait of the Polish-born scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner." — Kirkus "I've read many biographies of Marie Curie and Susan Quinn's is magnificent. It's so complete and so evocative that I can't imagine anyone coming away from reading it without feeling they actually know Marie Curie." — Alan Alda "Quinn portrays a woman who was both independent and ambitious, in a society that was unprepared for either. The result is a fresh, powerful new biography of a very human Marie Curie... This is an exemplary work, rich in the details and connections that bring a person and her era to life. It is certain to be this generations' definitive biography of Marie Curie." — Science "Quinn breaks ground in her detailed description, drawn from newly available papers, of Marie's life after Pierre's accidental death in 1906. At first so grief-stricken she neglected her two daughters, Irene and Eve, Marie later had a love affair with French scientist Paul Langevin. Because Langevin was married, Marie was vilified by the French press and was almost denied the 1911 Nobel Prize for chemistry." —Publishers Weekly "Susan Quinn's excellent biography gives a lucid account of Curie's contribution to our understanding of 'things'... but Quinn also draws on new material to paint a more rounded and attractive picture of Curie the person... For Marie, the enchantment of her science never waned, and it is this enchantment which Quinn's biography communicates so well." — London Observer

Author : Philip Steele
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426302497
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Curie written by Philip Steele and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the first woman to study physics at the University College of Paris, who went on to receive two Nobel Prizes for her work in radioactivity.

Author : Naomi Pasachoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198025254
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Curie written by Naomi Pasachoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Curie discovered radium and went on to lead the scientific community in studying the theory behind and the uses of radioactivity. She left a vast legacy to future scientists through her research, her teaching, and her contributions to the welfare of humankind. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, yet upon her death in 1934, Albert Einstein was moved to say, "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted." She was a physicist, a wife and mother, and a groundbreaking professional woman. This biography is an inspirational and exciting story of scientific discovery and personal commitment. Oxford Portraits in Science is an on-going series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.

Author : Denis Brian
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470307943
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curies written by Denis Brian and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the lives and relationships behind their magnificent careers, The Curies is the first biography to trace the entire Curie dynasty, from Pierre and Marie’s fruitful union and achievements to the lives and accomplishments of their two daughters, Irène and Eve, and son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie. Biographer Denis Brian digs deep beneath the headlines and legends to reveal the Curies’ multigenerational saga in its entirety, featuring new, never-before-published personal information as well as newly revealed correspondence and diary excerpts. Brimming with endearing and often amusing anecdotes about this much-misunderstood clan, The Curies reveals a family as closely intertwined in their private lives as they were in their professional endeavors.

Author : Demi
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1627793895
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Curie written by Demi and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.

Author : Barbara Goldsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393051377
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obsessive Genius written by Barbara Goldsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using original research (diaries, letters, and family interviews) to peel away the layers of myth, Goldsmith offers a portrait of Marie Curie, her amazing discoveries, and the immense price she paid for fame."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101024771
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Curie written by Kathleen Krull and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two?in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.

Author : Marie Curie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pierre Curie written by Marie Curie and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marie Curie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio-active Substances written by Marie Curie and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: