Friday, February 25, 2011

"Marie Curie: A Brilliant Life"

This biography describes aspects of Marie Curie's personal life, like her family as well as her education, achievements and awards, and setbacks.  It provides photographs and talks about her discovery of radium.  Her and her husband Pierre, along with Henri Becquerel win the Nobel Prize for physics.  The cause of Pierre's death is explained and the unit of measurement for amounts of radiation is termed the curie."  Marie won a second Nobel Prize in chemistry.  She taught women how to use X-ray equipment during World War I.  I would have students talk about who they thought had the biggest impact on Marie's life.

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