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Who Was Marie Curie?
Author: Megan Stine
Series: Who Was?
Narrator: Sarah Scott
Unabridged: 1 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 03/01/2016
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical, Science & Nature, Chemistry
Synopsis
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.
