Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning, from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. But her work, which led to the atomic age in science, was also her salvation.
Curie, Marie
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Author:Sherman, SusanSummary:In the early 1900s, a young woman escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a domestic servant and finds the world opening to her through her connection with the scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.
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Author:Cantor, JillianSummary:In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marie left Poland for Paris, where...
