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Chemists Chemists France Biography Juvenile literature Chemists Poland Biography Juvenile literature Curie, Marie 1867-1934 Curie, Marie 1867-1934 Juvenile literature Nobel Prize winners Biography Juvenile literature Vaccination Women chemists Women chemists France Biography Juvenile literature Women chemists Poland Biography Juvenile literatureAllen, John
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famed chemist, from her education at the Sorbonne in Paris to her work in radioactivity and her scientific accolades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURMilani, Alice
Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CURRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLStine, Megan
Summary: "Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURNys, Peter
Summary: "On November 7, 1867, Maria Skıodowska--a woman who changes the Scientific world forever--is born in Poland. With a natural talent for mathematics, she graduates high school at the age of fifteen! Soon after, she graduates from Paris University and gets married, taking the name Marie Curie. Her work will change the course of science forever, as well as show us to not be afraid of exploring and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURSanchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (Mar©Ưa Isabel)
Summary: Explores the childhood of Marie Curie, who overcame adversity to become one of the most respected scientists in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2017
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Summary: A brief biography emphasizing the importance of learning in the life of the scientist who was awarded the Nobel prize for her work in chemistry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Value Communications 1978
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CURIE JOHMarshall, Linda Elovitz
Summary: "The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MARBailey, R. J.
Summary: "Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers to the work chemists do and the preparation necessary for a chemistry career. Includes infographics, an activity, glossary, and index."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo Books are published by Jump! 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 540.23 BAIHagedorn, Ann
Summary: "The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOVAL, GEORGE HAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOVAL HAGHemmungs Wirtén, Eva
Summary: Making Marie Curie explores what went into the creation of this icon of science. It is not a traditional biography, or one that attempts to uncover the “real” Marie Curie. Rather, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, by tracing a career that spans two centuries and a world war, provides an innovative and historically grounded account of how modern science emerges in tandem with celebrity culture under the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURIE, MARIE WIRHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)— she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist—and was determined to make that dream come true."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURRedniss, Lauren.
Contents: Symmetry -- Magnetism -- Fusion -- White flash -- Instability of matter -- Half-life -- Isolation -- Exposure -- Daughter elements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: !t Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 540 REDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science RednissDemi.
Summary: Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURSummary: The story of psychedelic chemists Robert "Tim" Scully and Nicholas Sand, and how their positive experiences with LSD motivated them to become major players in the 1960s drug counterculture by creating ultrapure "Orange Sunshine" acid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUNMcClafferty, Carla Killough
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURMeltzer, Brad
Summary: "A biography of Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am CurieGoldsmith, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 540.92 GOLFisher, Leonard Everett.
Summary: The story of the scientist who, with her husband, discovered radium and, like the other subjects of this picture book series, changed the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURHager, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 540 HAGKelly, Tracey
Summary: Discusses the progress women have made in chemistry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KELQuinn, Susan.
Summary: In this stunning and richly textured new biography, Susan Quinn presents us with a far more complicated picture of the woman we thought we knew. Drawing on family documents, Quinn sheds new light on the tragic losses and patriotic passion that infused Marie Sklodowska Curie's early years in Poland. And through access to Marie Curie's journal, closed to researchers until 1990, we hear in her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURIE, MARIE QUIConant, Jennet
Summary: "The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant. James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth threats and challenges of the twentieth century. As a young eminent chemist, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONANT, JAMES B. CONGreenfield, Robert.
Summary: Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures in the cultural revolution that changed both America and the world during the 1960s. Owsley's high octane rocket fuel enabled Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters to put on the Acid Tests. It also powered much of what happened on stage at Monterey Pop. Owsley turned on Pete Townshend of The Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016