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41) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish scientist whose work with radium helped to change the world.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
AD 800L
Language
English
Description
"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"--
46) Madame Curie
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
47) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Publisher
Sunbird Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
GN 650L
Language
English
Description
"Marie Curie was the brilliant, trailblazing scientist who discovered radium and coined the term radioactivity. She is the only woman ever awarded two Nobel Prizes--one in physics and one in chemistry. She helped develop the use of X-rays and radiation therapies that have had a lasting impact on medicine and human health. This is her story."--
48) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and work of the Polish-born scientist whose study of radioactivity lead to her receiving two Nobel Prizes.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"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 journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during...
51) Marie Curie
Series
Publisher
Nest Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005.+]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
55) I am Marie Curie
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize."--
56) The soul of genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the meeting that changed the course of science
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 world, but the universe. At the center of this meeting...
57) Marie Curie
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 980L
Language
English
Description
Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
Series
Publisher
Devine Productions
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adventure abounds when two young sisters follow a Nobel-winning scientist they suspect is a spy. A dramatization of the life and times of Marie Curie. During World War 1, the young Boudreau sisters decide to aid the war effort by catching spies. The strange activities of Nobel-Prize winning scientist Marie Curie make her a prime suspect. When the girls follow Curie to the battlefront, they witness her fight to use science and her X-ray machine...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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 symbol of the Art Nouveau movement with her hypnotic dances...
