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Marie Curie was one of the most remarkable scientists of the modern age. She trail blazed in atomic science, in education, in applying radiation to medical uses. She was intelligent, determined, ethical and unassuming. Her contributions in the study of radioactivity laid the groundwork for a generation of scientists. In this brief book, the reader is introduced, in basic terms, to Marie Curie and her life work. The book relies heavily on pictures to tell its story. Difficult concepts such as radioactive decay and atomic structure are explained in basic terms. At the end of the book, the reader will have an understanding of the journey that took Marie Curie from being a young woman in Warsaw, Poland to being one of the most accomplished personalities in the history of science.

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