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Marie Curie
A biography of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband, was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium.
30 pages, Library Binding
First published March 1, 1985
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October 7, 2020
Marie Curie is a non fiction short picture book. She is physicist and one of the first women to get a degree in that field. She goes on to win many prizes and awards, and do many great things. This book is short and sweet, but gets to point very nicely.
I like this book because its talks about the great things that women, which back then were really able to get degrees, did amazing things and helping create life saving technology. This is also a older book, so the pictures are drawn look older, but are still great depicters of what is going on.
I would use this in my classroom for people learn and know more about her. It is also a shorter book, so kids could read through it in one sitting and feel like they kind of read a chapter book. This would also be a great book to pull from for projects and stuff about her.
I like this book because its talks about the great things that women, which back then were really able to get degrees, did amazing things and helping create life saving technology. This is also a older book, so the pictures are drawn look older, but are still great depicters of what is going on.
I would use this in my classroom for people learn and know more about her. It is also a shorter book, so kids could read through it in one sitting and feel like they kind of read a chapter book. This would also be a great book to pull from for projects and stuff about her.
February 5, 2015
The amazing biography Marie Curie is written by the world’s well-known author Louis Sabin. This exciting book mainly talks about Marie Curie’s life as a child and adult. Marie Curie was born in 1867 in Poland. When Marie was small she was known as Manya Sklodowska. Marie was the smallest of a family of five children. Marie’s parents were teachers, and all their children were brilliant students, so Marie was encircled by books and learning from her very beginning. As Marie’s parents were teachers Marie knew how to read before going to school. With all this passion of learning, Marie later succeeded to solve the most challenging scientific questions of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Marie’s real name is Manya but wanted to change it to the French version and called herself Marie. Marie studied Chemistry and Mathematics at university where she learned about the famous scientist Henri Becquerel that studied a substance called uranium. After her work in Math and Science, Marie decided to go further in her studies and discovered more about the rays already discovered by Becquerel. Marie spent most of her time reading and studying, she was very poor and sometimes ate only bread, butter, and drank nothing but tea. She would also get lost in her job and forget to eat. Marie found time to meet and talk with one of the university’s youngest teacher, Pierre Curie, once they met they forget all their shyness and talk about science and the discoveries they hoped to make. In 1895, Pierre and Marie were married. They set off on bicycles and toured the French countryside, they returned to Paris happy, refreshed and ready to start their work on Becquerel’s ray. The Curies used to set up their laboratory and work. In the lab, they had a machine that measured the amount of rays given off by uranium and other substances. They tested all the results and recorded it in a notebook. After showing the proof, Marie and Pierre won the Nobel Prize, Marie was the first women to receive the Nobel Prize. The Curies didn’t stop working but kept going on with their job. In 1906, Pierre was run down and killed in a street accident. Marie received another Nobel Prize in 1911. With the money won from the Nobel Prize she set up science scholarships and helped to establish a center for the study used for radium. In 1934, Marie sadly died and remained the first woman to get the Nobel Prize.
Throughout the biography Marie Curie, there are some relations between careers in science, what we previously learned in science, and it follows a branch, whether it is physical, earth, space, or life science. Research is not a waste of time, once a scientist succeeds to make a discovery he makes more money than what a business man can get in his life. This book has to do with the branch of physics because the Curies research was mainly about uranium. Science has no limits and that we must be ambitious to go farther in discovery. To discover a science discovery you have to follow Marie Curie’s path and you will succeed.
I would recommend this extraordinary biography to scientists. I would recommend it to scientists so they can follow Marie Curie’s path as a scientist. I would also recommend this biography to people or students who want to become scientist to take risks as a scientists and start and end like Marie Curie so they could have an easy and fun life like a science.
Throughout the biography Marie Curie, there are some relations between careers in science, what we previously learned in science, and it follows a branch, whether it is physical, earth, space, or life science. Research is not a waste of time, once a scientist succeeds to make a discovery he makes more money than what a business man can get in his life. This book has to do with the branch of physics because the Curies research was mainly about uranium. Science has no limits and that we must be ambitious to go farther in discovery. To discover a science discovery you have to follow Marie Curie’s path and you will succeed.
I would recommend this extraordinary biography to scientists. I would recommend it to scientists so they can follow Marie Curie’s path as a scientist. I would also recommend this biography to people or students who want to become scientist to take risks as a scientists and start and end like Marie Curie so they could have an easy and fun life like a science.
March 31, 2015
Marie Curie
“This young women was the scientist Marie Curie. Her experiments in physics and chemistry were to change the course of scientific history. And although fame and many horons will someday be hers, she later wrote that her happiest hours had been spent in the old, drafty lab, where she carried out her experiment”. (Sabin, 8). The biography “Marie Curie” was written by the distinguished author Sabin. This novel talks about her passion, life from childhood to her death as well as other important personal information. Marie Curie Sklodowska was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her parents were both teachers, and she was the youngest of five children. As a young girl , Curie took after her father, Ladislas, a math and physics teacher. Marie had learned to read, for she was too young to go to school. Marie Curie had a bright and curious mind and excelled at school. But dilemmas hit early, and when she was only 11, Curie lost her mother, Bronsitwa, to tuberculosis, which is an infectious bacterial disease. Marie attempted to answer some of the challenging scientific questions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While a student at Sorbonne, Marie studied chemistry and mathematics. At the university, she learned of the work of the French scientist Henri Becquerel who studied a substance called Uranium. He found that uranium gave off mysterious rays that could pass through solid material. Marie was confuse by these mysteries rays, and so when she completed her work in math and science, she decided to study and find out about the rays that Becquerel discovered. Marie spent much of her time studying. She was very poor and sometimes ate bread with butter and tea. But she found time to talk to one of the university’s young science teacher, Pierre Curie. Together they would talk about science and discoveries they hoped to make. In 1895, Pierre and Marie married, and on their honeymoon , they went to have a tour of France and then were ready to begin to work on their work on Becquerel’s.
The book “Marie Curie” is a biography because it gives real facts and information about Marie Curie including her Date, place of birth, and date of death, major achievements, education, facts about the person and an overview of what makes the person significant. Marie Curie is a hero since she helped the knowledge of the world to grow and she helped the world of scientists to get better. I like Marie Curie since she never gave up in her work and always worked hard to achieve and succeed in life. I liked how Marie Curie was a poor young child and the she became a famous scientists who won two Nobel price. The Nobel Prize made the Curie’s very famous within France and is mostly famous for her work with radiation. Hero, smart, intelligent, and knowledge are the four adjectives that describes this person since she is a Smart and Intelligent women that evolved the world of science.
I would recommend this outstanding biography to young middle scholars who’s dream is to become a scientist. I would also recommend it to scientists so that they can go after Marie Curie’s path as a scientist. I would also recommend this biography to science teachers, as well as social studies teachers since this book talks about the past. The biography “Marie Curie” is a descriptive novel which is fun to read.
“This young women was the scientist Marie Curie. Her experiments in physics and chemistry were to change the course of scientific history. And although fame and many horons will someday be hers, she later wrote that her happiest hours had been spent in the old, drafty lab, where she carried out her experiment”. (Sabin, 8). The biography “Marie Curie” was written by the distinguished author Sabin. This novel talks about her passion, life from childhood to her death as well as other important personal information. Marie Curie Sklodowska was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her parents were both teachers, and she was the youngest of five children. As a young girl , Curie took after her father, Ladislas, a math and physics teacher. Marie had learned to read, for she was too young to go to school. Marie Curie had a bright and curious mind and excelled at school. But dilemmas hit early, and when she was only 11, Curie lost her mother, Bronsitwa, to tuberculosis, which is an infectious bacterial disease. Marie attempted to answer some of the challenging scientific questions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While a student at Sorbonne, Marie studied chemistry and mathematics. At the university, she learned of the work of the French scientist Henri Becquerel who studied a substance called Uranium. He found that uranium gave off mysterious rays that could pass through solid material. Marie was confuse by these mysteries rays, and so when she completed her work in math and science, she decided to study and find out about the rays that Becquerel discovered. Marie spent much of her time studying. She was very poor and sometimes ate bread with butter and tea. But she found time to talk to one of the university’s young science teacher, Pierre Curie. Together they would talk about science and discoveries they hoped to make. In 1895, Pierre and Marie married, and on their honeymoon , they went to have a tour of France and then were ready to begin to work on their work on Becquerel’s.
The book “Marie Curie” is a biography because it gives real facts and information about Marie Curie including her Date, place of birth, and date of death, major achievements, education, facts about the person and an overview of what makes the person significant. Marie Curie is a hero since she helped the knowledge of the world to grow and she helped the world of scientists to get better. I like Marie Curie since she never gave up in her work and always worked hard to achieve and succeed in life. I liked how Marie Curie was a poor young child and the she became a famous scientists who won two Nobel price. The Nobel Prize made the Curie’s very famous within France and is mostly famous for her work with radiation. Hero, smart, intelligent, and knowledge are the four adjectives that describes this person since she is a Smart and Intelligent women that evolved the world of science.
I would recommend this outstanding biography to young middle scholars who’s dream is to become a scientist. I would also recommend it to scientists so that they can go after Marie Curie’s path as a scientist. I would also recommend this biography to science teachers, as well as social studies teachers since this book talks about the past. The biography “Marie Curie” is a descriptive novel which is fun to read.
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April 19, 2016This Polish girl taught herself to read before entering primary school. She was especially interested in math, physics, and chemistry. While studying at the Sorbonne, she met her husband and partner in scientific inquiry. Marie pursued the discovery of the source of the rays of uranium. In her meticulous search, she discovered two new elements, even though scientists felt that all of the elements in existence had already been found. And she used x-rays to be used in medical settings. Her long exposure to radiation, led to her untimely death. She invented the word, radioactivity.
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