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"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. (Marie later won another Nobel for chemistry in 1911.)...
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2020.
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English
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Everyone makes mistakes, and Harry Coover is no different. A brilliant scientist, Harry keeps making the same extra-sticky mistake, but he begins to wonder whether it's not such a mistake after all...A fun story about the scientist, Harry Coover, who accidentally invented super glue!
9) Marie Curie
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[2018]
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English
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Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
10) Chemist
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2023.
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English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to chemists. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
11) Marie Curie
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2018.
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English
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Presents an overview of the life and accomplishments of Marie Curie, describing her work with radioactivity and lasting influence.
12) Marie Curie
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2000.
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English
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A biography of the chemist whose work with radium laid the foundation for much of today's scientific knowledge.
13) Marie Curie
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2018.
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First U.S. edition.
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English
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Marie Curie, the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize and only person to win it in two different scientific fields, was a physicist and chemist. As she conducted pioneering research, Marie Curie coined the term "radioactivity," developed some of the first techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes. She also discovered two elements: polonium and radium, and developed mobile X-ray units for use in field hospitals during World War I. In 1934, at...
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2020.
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First edition.
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English
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"Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few. The process was very complicated and expensive. Until 1856, when a boy named William Henry Perkin invented a new way. While testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria, he found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic PURPLE"--
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