num_pages: 144
description: 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.
language: English
title: Marie Curie
publisher: Viking Juvenile