Marie Curie for Kids

An Outstanding Science Trade Book 2017Marie Curie, nicknamed "e;Manya"e; by her family, reveled in reading, learning, and exploring nature as a girl growing up in her native Poland. She went on to become one of the world's most famous scientists. Curie's revolutionary discoveries over several decades created the field of atomic physics, and Curie herself coined the word radioactivity. She was the ...