Something out of nothing
Subtitle: Marie Curie and radium
By: Carla Killough McClafferty.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Curie, Marie, -- 1867-1934; Radium; Chemists -- Poland -- Biography; Women chemists -- Poland -- Biography; Physicists -- Poland -- Biography; Women physicists -- Poland -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-123) and index.

1050  Lexile.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.3 5.0 105300.

A Junior Library Guild selection.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Governess; title: Pierre; title: Discovery; title: Fame; title: Trouble; title: Scandal; title: War; title: Danger; title: Endings; title: Legacy; title: Source notes; title: Selected bibliography; title: Recommended web sites; title: Acknowledgments; title: Illustration credits; title: Index.