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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 RednissJohnson, Ann Donegan.
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 JOHQuinn, 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 QUIGoldsmith, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 540.92 GOLMarshall, 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 MAREmling, Shelley.
Summary: "Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURIE, MARIE EMLMilani, 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 CURAllen, 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 CURSobel, Dava
Summary: Dava Sobel chronicles the life of the most famous woman in the history of science and tells the story of the remarkable young women trained in her laboratory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 CURIE, MARIE SOBSobel, Dava
Summary: "The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own. "Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press
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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 CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET CURIESwaby, Rachel
Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWASummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Demi.
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 CURHeinecke, Liz Lee
Summary: "At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways to treat disease, while imagination blossomed, creating Art Nouveau, motion pictures, and modernist literature. A pivotal figure during this time, yet largely forgotten today, Loie Fuller was an American performance artist who became a living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HEISummary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Hemmungs 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 WIROrens, Jeffrey
Summary: "In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the Nobel Prize. Over the course of those few days, these minds began to realize that classical physics was about to give way to quantum theory, a seismic shift in our history and how we understand not just our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 OREHopkinson, 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 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 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 CurieSanchez 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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURSummary: The animated story of Marie Curie, the Polish-born scientist. Her shared research with her husband Pierre gave the world the theory of radioactivity, the discovery of plutonium, and the isolation of radium. She was the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nest Family Entertainment 2005