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Who Was Marie Curie?
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Chemistry & Materials
- Physics & Energy
- Human Body & Health
- Biography / Memoir
- Mystery / Investigation
Marie Curie's move from barred educational opportunities in Warsaw to a scientific partnership in Paris gives radioactivity a human history of persistence and discovery. The search for new elements, two Nobel Prizes, and the eventual cost of radiation exposure make matter, evidence, and laboratory risk inseparable from her life story.
The science inside
- Materials
- Chemistry & Reactions
- Medicine & Health
- Scientific Discovery & Careers
Your child will meet:
- Radioactivity is energy and particles released by unstable atomic nuclei, not an ordinary chemical reaction.
- Curie's measurements helped show that unusually strong radiation in an ore could indicate previously unknown elements.
- Polonium and radium are chemical elements whose isolation required repeated separation and measurement of materials.
- Ionizing radiation can damage living tissue, and cumulative exposure may cause serious illness.
Use it this way
Parent effort: Simple activity
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.
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