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2006 Hackmatack

Children's Choice Book Award/Prix littéraire - le choix de jeunes

 

Marie Curie: A Brilliant Life
by Elizabeth MacLeod

Kids Can Press, 2004
ISBN 155337571X
$7.95 (pb)

Marie Curie's pioneering discoveries in radiation changed the world. She became one of the most important women in science and her research is still important to scientists and doctors today. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first to win it twice. Learn about her early life and how she put her discoveries to work to help save the wounded in World War I and how radiation is used today. Marie showed that hard work and determination can make anything possible.

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