TY  - BOOK
AU  - McClafferty,Carla Killough
TI  - Something out of nothing
SN  - 0374380368 (hardcover)
U1  - 540/.92B 
KW  - Radium
KW  - Chemists
KW  - Women chemists
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Women physicists
N1  - Beginnings -- Governess -- Pierre -- Discovery -- Fame -- Trouble -- Scandal -- War -- Danger -- Endings -- Legacy -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Recommended web sites -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index
N2  - Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world
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