Marie Curie for Kids
Ruth Richards
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(, May 11, 2015)
Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French scientist, chemist and physicist. Do you know that she was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the first person to be awarded with two Nobel Prize? She is best known for her work on radioactivity. Marie Curie discovered two new elements of the periodic table: polonium and radium. During World War I, there werenโt many X-rays to help in the treatment of injured soldiers, she then formed mobile X-rays to help bring X-rays to different places she even taught individuals how to run an X-ray machine that helped save many lives. Read this book and learn more fascinating facts about Marie Curie.