"Marie Curie: Mother of Modern Physics"

From ChicoER.com: "Marie Curie: Mother of Modern Physics"
Every school year students come into the library looking for biographies for their school reports. The library has an array of biographies of famous and historical figures from Henry Ford to Justin Bieber. Most of these biographies are located in the non-fiction section of the children's room.

One such biography is about Madame Curie, a female scientist who with her husband Pierre received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and later won a second in 1911 for her work in chemistry, a very noble achievement for a woman in the 1900s. Born Maria Salomea Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, Madame Curie went by the nickname "Manya." When she moved to Paris in 1891 to study at the Faculty of Science at Sorbonne, she changed her name to Marie.

"It was at that moment that she signed the French version of her name, Marie, the name by which she would come to be known around the world, for the first time."

She was 24 years old.

Learn more about Marie Curie's struggles, discoveries and successes in this biography for students in sixth through ninth grade.

From Susie Serrano, Paradise library