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مادام کوری
خود را در کلاسی تصور کنید که ۲۳ نفر در آن حضور دارند. شما هم مثل همکلاسیهایتان دانشمندید اما با آنها تفاوتی بزرگ دارید و همین باعث شده تا شما را جدی نگیرند و حتی آزمایشگاه مناسبی نداشته باشید. کتاب مادام کوری اثر آلیس ثورن داستان زندگی زنی است که از ابتدای تولد در رنج بود، در زمان دانشجویی بیش از بقیه تلاش میکرد اما چون تنها دختر آن رشته بود، رؤسای دانشگاه برای تحقیقاتش ارزش قائل نبودند. در نهایت، با وجود اینهمه محدودیت، فقط او توانست دنیا را با اکتشافاتش زیر و رو کند، اولین استادِ زن در دانشگاه پاریس شود و دو بار جایزهی نوبل را در دستانش بگیرد؛ نام او ماری کوری است.
181 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1959
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March 27, 2023
خوشحالم که این فرصت پیش اومد تا درباره زندگی مادام کوری در قالب این داستان چیزای زیادی بدونم.
خوندن زندگی نامه زنان موفق دنیا مخصوصا تو این روزا که مدیا و جامعه داره القا میکنه که زن در صورتی موفقه که لوندو خوشگل به نظر برسه خیلی ضروریه
خوندن زندگی نامه زنان موفق دنیا مخصوصا تو این روزا که مدیا و جامعه داره القا میکنه که زن در صورتی موفقه که لوندو خوشگل به نظر برسه خیلی ضروریه
December 8, 2022
پاور کاپل فقط پییر و ماری کوری :))
حتما باید بعدا یه زندگینامه ی مفصل تر از این زن بزرگ بخونم.
حتما باید بعدا یه زندگینامه ی مفصل تر از این زن بزرگ بخونم.
July 20, 2014
Y'ALL.
A very long time ago, a baby Miranda Moriarty read a book about a woman scientist. She loved this book so much that she read it over and over and over again.
Alas! A day came when she moved and she thought she'd lost the book forever.
Until her 23rd birthday. WHEN HER MOTHER FOUND IT FOR HER AGAIN.
I don't even know why this book fascinated me as a kid -- it just DID. I remember laying down and reading it several times in a day. My copy is an original from 1959 and it's just so lovely.
REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD.
A very long time ago, a baby Miranda Moriarty read a book about a woman scientist. She loved this book so much that she read it over and over and over again.
Alas! A day came when she moved and she thought she'd lost the book forever.
Until her 23rd birthday. WHEN HER MOTHER FOUND IT FOR HER AGAIN.
I don't even know why this book fascinated me as a kid -- it just DID. I remember laying down and reading it several times in a day. My copy is an original from 1959 and it's just so lovely.
REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD.
May 6, 2015
I read this a lot when I was little. Its portrait of a real woman, a pioneering spirit, and a beautiful marriage is one I still remember and highly recommend.
July 20, 2018
قطعا داستان زندگی ماری کوری دانشمند داستان جذابیه و میتونست جذابترهم بنظر بیاد اگه نویسنده اینقد بی روح و سرد روایتش نمی کرد
کلا وسطای کتاب که رسیدم فقط میخاستم بخونم که تموم شه!
کلا وسطای کتاب که رسیدم فقط میخاستم بخونم که تموم شه!
August 9, 2025
picked up to pre-read for my kiddos and couldn’t put it down! an excellent introduction to Marie Curie that I can only imagine leads to deeper digging. She is a favorite of mine and I can’t wait to introduce my boys to this inspiring woman scientist via an approachable story like this.
October 27, 2022
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The Signature Books are a great choice for parents wishing to read quality books to younger children. Full of more illustrations than is typical for chapter books, these biographies are geared to keep the attention of younger children by their simple, well-written style. The biographies focus primarily on the famous person’s childhood, which is not only more engaging for youth, but also meant to inspire. These books are definitely my first recommendation to parents looking for historical/educational read-aloud material for their child roughly between the ages of five and eight.
Ages: 5+
Pages: approx. 175-200
Illustrations: numerous illustrations for a chapter book
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“Signature Books are easy to read and provide lively, entertaining, and factual stories about famous people. Though written simply enough for young readers, they make interesting reading for boys and girls well into their teens.”
-From one of the dust jackets
The Signature Books are a great choice for parents wishing to read quality books to younger children. Full of more illustrations than is typical for chapter books, these biographies are geared to keep the attention of younger children by their simple, well-written style. The biographies focus primarily on the famous person’s childhood, which is not only more engaging for youth, but also meant to inspire. These books are definitely my first recommendation to parents looking for historical/educational read-aloud material for their child roughly between the ages of five and eight.
Ages: 5+
Pages: approx. 175-200
Illustrations: numerous illustrations for a chapter book
Price Range: $4 – $80 depending on the title and its rarity.
Cleanliness: nothing to note.
**Like my reviews? Then you should follow me! Because I have hundreds more just like this one. With each review, I provide a Cleanliness Report, mentioning any objectionable content I come across so that parents and/or conscientious readers (like me) can determine beforehand whether they want to read a book or not. Content surprises are super annoying, especially when you’re 100+ pages in, so here’s my attempt to help you avoid that!
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May 5, 2019
زندگی ماری کوری قطعا درس بزرگی برای تمام انسان هاست.
June 8, 2015
A beautifully written children's biography. This is how it's done, folks. I wish they would reprint this series.
August 29, 2018
Read aloud to Janna in MT. Fantastic historical writing for kids on Marie. So excited for books like these to introduce my girls to women of character and knowledge who have become impactors in society. We have too many super models and actors as “heroes” that is refreshing to read about true influencers in society. The writing was such that Janna kept asking for more as we wrapped up a chapter and then she finished the last one on her own because she couldn’t wait for me to finish it.
September 22, 2018
این کتاب برای محدوده سنی نوجوان مناسبه و برای افرادی که آشنایی اندکی با مادام کوری و کارهاش دارن.هر قسمت از زندگی ایشون رو خلاصه و مفید بیان کرده.میتونید بعد از خوندن کتاب فیلمش رو هم ببینید.
December 24, 2019
A nice overview of Madame Curie's life and work in approachable narrative.
November 14, 2021
This was a good introduction to the life of Madame Curie. Great for students to learn about this pioneering woman in the field of science. Makes me want to read more about her in the future.
April 27, 2022
B. nonfiction, biography, children's nonficition, from stash, keep.
September 1, 2024
This is the first of the Science biographies for my daughters year 5 in AO. We enjoyed this gentle introduction to the genius of Marie Currie, the Scientist who discovered Radium.
May 5, 2022
Read aloud after finishing Tiner History of Medicine. Contained actual quotes from daughter Eve Curier’s book. Olders are interested in that title now. This series never disappoints.
Enjoyed from Kyla all the way down to Ada. She has babies.. who can’t love it? 🙂
Juddy proclaims Madame Curie is his favorite scientist. Who is yours?
Enjoyed from Kyla all the way down to Ada. She has babies.. who can’t love it? 🙂
Juddy proclaims Madame Curie is his favorite scientist. Who is yours?
May 12, 2010
This is an excellent, highly-readable biography of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, aimed at a young-adult audience. It closely follows Eve Curie's own heartfelt biography of her mother's life and career in science.
The story follows young "Manya" Sklodowska's youth in Poland, where she grew up despising the Russian authorities and their ban against the teaching of Polish history and even the Polish language. It describes her despair at the death of her beloved oldest sister from typhus, her mother's death from tuberculosis, and her father's professional humiliation at the orders of the Russian authorities.
She eventually supported her sister Bronya in her wish to attend the Sorbonne and train to become a doctor. And Bronya's subsequent support for Marie to attend that same institution where she met her future husband, Pierre Curie and their mutual mentor Henri Becquerrel.
When Becquerrel accidentally observed the effects of radioactivity for the first time, it was Marie Curie herself who coined the term radioactivity to describe the pentrating rays given off by ores of uranium.
At Becquerrel's suggestion, Marie dedicated herself to discovering the source of that radiation. When her investigations indicated the presence of an unknown element present in those ores, which was more highly-radioactive than uranium, Marie's husband Pierre dropped his study of telectro-sensitive cyrstals to assist her in what he believed was of greater scientific significance.
Together they struggled for years to isolate the mystery element and eventually isolated it and named it Polonium after Marie's homeland. In the meantime, they had determined that there was yet another element hidden among the uranium pitchblende ores, an element vastly more radioactive than even polonium.
Several years of arduous work separating and re-separating the ore fractions, sifting through tons of pitchblende ore using the radioactivity of the elusive element itself as their guide, resulted in the isolation of a tenth of a gram of pure substance which they called "Radium."
For their efforts, Pierre and Marie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerrel.
Following Pierre's death in a traffic accident, Marie continued their work investigating the properties of radioactivity and Radium, and eventually received the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the only person to receieve two Nobel Prizes in science.
Marie Curie eventually died due to complications of radiation exposure at the age of 67, and was buried in a simple ceremony beside her husband Pierre.
The story follows young "Manya" Sklodowska's youth in Poland, where she grew up despising the Russian authorities and their ban against the teaching of Polish history and even the Polish language. It describes her despair at the death of her beloved oldest sister from typhus, her mother's death from tuberculosis, and her father's professional humiliation at the orders of the Russian authorities.
She eventually supported her sister Bronya in her wish to attend the Sorbonne and train to become a doctor. And Bronya's subsequent support for Marie to attend that same institution where she met her future husband, Pierre Curie and their mutual mentor Henri Becquerrel.
When Becquerrel accidentally observed the effects of radioactivity for the first time, it was Marie Curie herself who coined the term radioactivity to describe the pentrating rays given off by ores of uranium.
At Becquerrel's suggestion, Marie dedicated herself to discovering the source of that radiation. When her investigations indicated the presence of an unknown element present in those ores, which was more highly-radioactive than uranium, Marie's husband Pierre dropped his study of telectro-sensitive cyrstals to assist her in what he believed was of greater scientific significance.
Together they struggled for years to isolate the mystery element and eventually isolated it and named it Polonium after Marie's homeland. In the meantime, they had determined that there was yet another element hidden among the uranium pitchblende ores, an element vastly more radioactive than even polonium.
Several years of arduous work separating and re-separating the ore fractions, sifting through tons of pitchblende ore using the radioactivity of the elusive element itself as their guide, resulted in the isolation of a tenth of a gram of pure substance which they called "Radium."
For their efforts, Pierre and Marie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerrel.
Following Pierre's death in a traffic accident, Marie continued their work investigating the properties of radioactivity and Radium, and eventually received the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the only person to receieve two Nobel Prizes in science.
Marie Curie eventually died due to complications of radiation exposure at the age of 67, and was buried in a simple ceremony beside her husband Pierre.
January 28, 2026
Another easy and compelling read (finished within about 3ish hours). Manages to covey the wide scope of Curie’s life from childhood to her passing with touching details and attention given to her personal attitudes and habits, devotion to her family (dad and sister especially), husband Pierre, and two daughters, in addition to discovering new elements, polonium and radium. Some interesting connections was realizing she was alive when the Titanic sank (perhaps this contributed to her apprehension towards crossing the ocean on an American friends invitation, aboard Titanic s sister ship, Olympic??) and during WWI she assisted by creating an ‘army’ of mobile X-ray-bearing vehicles, referred to as “Little Curies”. In America she was gifted a gram of radium for her own, as the one she had produced she considered belonging to the Radium Institute she founded and built in her husbands wishes. Her noble, disciplined, and passionately focused character is displayed many ways but one of the most inspiring is the discussion she has with her husband in regards to choosing to earn profit or not from sharing the process of producing radium. Their likemindedness is virtuous: such knowledge freely belongs to the world. I cannot help but wonder if doctors today remember this when such incredible amounts of money is charged when radiation is used. We could use more Curie-like people in that industry..
The only content considerations are in the form of deaths briefly mentioned; (very early in her life) her mother’s, the assassination of the Russian czar, her fathers, her husbands, her father in laws, and her own in old age as a consequence of long term radium exposure.
The only content considerations are in the form of deaths briefly mentioned; (very early in her life) her mother’s, the assassination of the Russian czar, her fathers, her husbands, her father in laws, and her own in old age as a consequence of long term radium exposure.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 24, 2024
⭐2.50 stars
I learned a lot about Madame Curie from this book. Quick and easy read.
I learned a lot about Madame Curie from this book. Quick and easy read.
May 1, 2020
One of history's greatest female scientists, careless in her personal safety, although way ahead of her time in scientific and medical discovery. In her defence, she didn't realise the dangers and health risks she was dealing with in that time period. It deeply saddened me when I read this book growing up, I kept saying: "be careful!" "Take precaution! We need you to live! Humanity needs you!"
December 16, 2017
نمی دانم چرا کتاب های داستانی که از روی زندگی نامه افراد مشهور نوشته میشوند هیچوقت شخصیت پردازی و جنبه داستانی قوی ندارند..
این یکی هم ازاین قاعده مستثنی نبود دلم میخواست خودم می نوشتمش:) موضوع به این جالبی را نویسنده به سردی یخ تعریف کرد ، انگار عجله داشت که قصه ای بگوید و سرش را هم بیارد و تمام :(
این یکی هم ازاین قاعده مستثنی نبود دلم میخواست خودم می نوشتمش:) موضوع به این جالبی را نویسنده به سردی یخ تعریف کرد ، انگار عجله داشت که قصه ای بگوید و سرش را هم بیارد و تمام :(
January 19, 2013
It was really nice! I loved how it stayed accurate and true to what really happened, but it easy to read and suitable for kids. It also opened my eyes to the importance of Curie's contribution to Science.
June 27, 2008
Great introduction to Marie Curie's life...for ages 8-12.
October 20, 2008
For some reason I loved this book as a kid. Maybe it did give me a strong female role model.
August 5, 2016
Wonderfully written story with some great sketches sure to appeal to younger readers. Interesting life.
March 2, 2017
Good overview on her life. But I can't say I found her life encouraging or character building.
October 15, 2023
It's been a long time since I read this. I saved the book so I must have liked it, but I didn't leave any comments that would nudge my memory.
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