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Marie Curie is perhaps the most famous female scientist in history. Despite facing both ethnic and gender bias, she received her doctorate at the Sorbonne and forged a career as a pioneer in physics, specifically in the field of radiation research. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered the elements of radium and polonium. This discovery earned the couple the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Marie Curie also later earned a second prize, for Chemistry in 1911, on her own. This biography explores her life.

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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists series. Beginning strangely with Curie's rumored affair with Paul Langevin in 1911, this biography then settles into a chronological account of her life and accomplishments, from her early years in Poland through her study at the Sorbonne, her marriage to Pierre, their discovery of radium, and its aftermath. Well-documented prose illustrated with black-and-white photos and diagrams also highlights Curie's social concerns. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind., The Horn Book Guide Spring 2005

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