Marie Curie - Kathleen Krull [32]
Marie wouldn’t have considered herself a martyr to science. In fact, she said, “I am among those who think that science has a great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician, he is also a child placed before natural phenomena, which impress him like a fairy tale.”
Science was beautiful and adventurous, a game she enjoyed, and one she played to win.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(* books especially for young readers)
Briān, Denis. The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
* Cooney, Miriam P., ed. Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science. Reston, va.: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1996.
Curie, Eve. Madame Curie: A Biography, with a new introduction by Natalie Angier. New York: Da Capo Press, 2001.
* Dendy, Leslie, and Mel Boring. Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine. New York: Holt, 2005.
Goldsmith, Barbara. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
* McClafferty, Carla Killough. Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
* Pasachoff, Naomi. Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pflaum, Rosalynd. Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and Her World. New York: doubleday, 1989.
* Pflaum, Rosālynd. Marie Curie and Her Daughter Irène. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1993.
Preston, Diānā. Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. New York: Berkley Books, 2005.
Quinn, Susān. Marie Curie: A Life. New York: da Capo Press, 1995.
* Steele, Philip. Marie Curie: The Woman Who Changed the Course of Science. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Children’s Books, 2006.
* Strāthern, Pāul. Curie and Radioactivity: The Big Idea. London: Arrow Books, 1998.
WEB SITES
(verified June 2007)
“How Nuclear Radiation Works”: http://science.howstuffworks. com/nuclear.htm
Institut Curie, Paris: http://www.curie.fr/index.cfm/lang/_gb.htm (includes the Curie Museum)
“Madame Curie,” National Atomic Museum: http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/curie.cfm
“Marie Curie: Biography,” http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html
“Marie Curie: A Nobel Prize Pioneer at the Panthéon”: http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/SCIENCES/CURIE/marie.html
“Marie Curie, Radioactivity, and the Emerging New Physics: The Extraordinary Career of a Woman Scientist,” Yale School of Medicine: http://info.med.yale.edu/library/exhibits/curie/welcome.html
“Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity,” American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/history/curie
“Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of Polonium and Radium,” Nobel Prize Official Site: http://nobelprize.org/physics/articles/curie/index.html
Museum of Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Warsaw: http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/museum.html
The Periodic Table of Elements, Jefferson Lab: http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/
INDEX
alchemy
alpha rays
American Association of University Women
Anderson, Carl david anti-Semitism
atom
believed to be the smallest particle of matter
structure of
subatomic particles, discovery of
atomic physics see also nuclear physics
atomic weapons
Ayrton, Hertha
Becquerel, Henri
Bernhardt, Sarah
beta rays
Boyle, Robert
cancer
radiation exposure as cause of
radiation (radium) therapy for
Cassatt, Mary
Chadwick, James
chemistry
early history of
Mendeleyev’s periodic table of elements
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
cobalt
Comte, Auguste
curie (unit of measurement)
Curie, Ève, see Labouisse, Ève Curie (Marie’s daughter)
Curie, Irène, see Joliot-Curie, Irène (Marie’s daughter)
Curie, Jacques
Curie, Marie (née Sklowdowska)
ambition
biography written by daughter Ève
burial at the Panthéon
childhood of
collaboration with Pierre
dangers of radiation exposure and
death