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Marie Curie Hardback - 2008
by Kathleen Krull
Talk about a 'glowing reputation'! Marie Curie, the woman who coinedthe term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel prize but two in physicsand in chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences. As with herprevious star-studded biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, andSigmund Freud all three chosen as ALA Notable Books Kathleen Krulloffers readers a fascinating portrait of this mythic 'giant of science' whoabhorred publicity. And she also places Curie's ground-breaking discoveryof two elements within the framework of science at that time.
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Talk about a ?glowing reputation?! Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel prize but two?in physics and in chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences. As with her previous star-studded biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Sigmund Freud?all three chosen as ALA Notable Books?Kathleen Krull offers readers a fascinating portrait of this mythic ?giant of science? who abhorred publicity. And she also places Curie?s ground-breaking discovery of two elements within the framework of science at that time.
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- Title Marie Curie
- Author Kathleen Krull
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 144
- Language EN
- Publisher Viking Children's Book, New York
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9780670058945
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007024251
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Krull presents another top-notch scientific biography in the outstanding Giants of Science series. Readers have come to expect chatty, direct narratives that develop distinct characters and place those individuals squarely in the context of both their times and their disciplines, and this account of the noted physicist’s life delivers the goods. From her childhood in an oppressed Poland, the daughter of two highly educated individuals, Curie emerges as a driven woman, determined to excel for both her parents’ and her country’s sake, this drive informing everything that followed. As in previous series entries, this offering manages to take a wildly complex subject—atomic physics—and render it comprehensible to the child reader, emphasizing the legacy Curie left behind. Curie’s personal life—her unusual (for the times) partnership with her husband, her frustration with the limitations imposed on her because of her sex, her difficulty balancing work and family—receives admiring, but frank consideration. Readers will emerge from this account with a new appreciation for both the scientific and social advances made by Curie, whose towering achievements justly earn her a place among the “Giants.”—Kirkus, starred review
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