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Madame Curie's Notebooks: The Woman Who Named Radioactivity for Teens

Madame Curie's Notebooks: The Woman Who Named Radioactivity for Teens

Michaels, Sarah

Paperback

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN13: 9798235606241
Publisher: SD
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In a library in Paris, there are notebooks you cannot open without signing a waiver first. They belonged to a woman who spent four years boiling several tons of rock in a shed the university had condemned, and who ended up with enough of a new element to fit in an eggcup.

She was born in a country that had been erased from the map. Her university wouldn't admit women, so she studied in an illegal night school that changed address every week to stay ahead of the police. She spent three years as a governess in a house where the family had decided she was too poor to marry their son, sending her wages to Paris so her sister could go first. When she finally made her own discovery, she wasn't allowed into the hall where it was announced - a man read her findings aloud while she waited outside.

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