02000cam a2200421 i 4500 345717392 TxAuBib 20070410120000.0 040930s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004056414 9780374380366 hardcover 0374380368 hardcover (OCoLC)56685110 DLC DLC BAKER TEF XY4 BUR IG# IQU BTCTA GK8 YDXCP TxAuBib rda McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958- Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium / Carla Killough McClafferty. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006. 134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-123) and index. Beginnings -- Governess -- Pierre -- Discovery -- Fame -- Trouble -- Scandal -- War -- Danger -- Endings -- Legacy -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Recommended web sites -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index. 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. 20180806. A Junior Library Guild selection. ALA -- Best Books for Young Adults, 2007. Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, 2006. BPL-LSTA, 2008. ACK - Libri Foundation, 2008. Curie, Marie 1867-1934. Radium. Chemists Poland Biography. Women chemists Poland Biography. Physicists Poland Biography. Women physicists Poland Biography.