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Who Was
Marie Curie?
By Megan Stine
Illustrated by Ted Hammond
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Text copyright 2014 by Megan Stine. Illustrations copyright 2014 by Ted Hammond. Cover illustration copyright 2014 by Nancy Harrison. All rights reserved. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. GROSSET & DUNLAP is a trademark of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
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Who Was
Marie Curie?
One day in November 1903, Marie Curie and her husband got a letter in the mail. The letter invited them to travel from Paris to Sweden to meet the king and queen! Marie was about to be given a gold medal, a fancy dinner, and a huge amount of money. She was about to become famous all over the world. She was about to win the Nobel Prize!
What had she done to deserve all this?
Marie Curie was a scientist at a time when there were almost no female scientists. In fact, most women didnt even go to college then! Marie wasnt like most women. She spoke five languages. She loved math problems so much that her father sent them to her in his letters. She met Albert Einsteinthe most famous scientist in the world! She was brilliant and determined to succeed.
Marie was being given the Nobel Prize for her work in science. She had discovered a new metal! She called it radium.
At first, Marie didnt even know what this new metal was. All she knew was that it was amazingly powerful. It gave off energy! It glowed in the dark, giving off a faint green light. Marie thought it looked like fairy light.
By the time her work was done, Maries discovery would change the world in good ways and bad. Marie Curie would be the most famous woman scientist in history.
THE NOBEL PRIZE
THE NOBEL PRIZE IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND IMPORTANT AWARDS GIVEN. IT WAS CREATED BY THE SWEDISH SCIENTIST WHO INVENTED DYNAMITE. ALFRED NOBEL WAS VERY RICH. HE WANTED TO REWARD PEOPLE WHO HELPED MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. HE CREATED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN HIS WILL. THE PRIZES ARE GIVEN FOR SCIENCES, MEDICINE, LITERATURE, AND PEACE. IN 2013, EACH NOBEL PRIZE CAME WITH A CASH AWARD OF MORE THAN $1 MILLION!
THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE ARE INVITED TO COME TO STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, FOR A FANCY CEREMONY. THERE, THEY ARE GIVEN A GOLD MEDAL BY THE KING OF SWEDEN! THEN A HUGE BANQUET IS HELD WITH THE KING AND QUEEN.
THE VERY FIRST NOBEL PRIZES WERE GIVEN IN 1901. ONE OF THE SCIENCE PRIZES WAS GIVEN TO WILHELM RNTGEN, THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED X-RAYS. MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE WON IN 1903. OTHER FAMOUS WINNERS INCLUDE ALBERT EINSTEIN, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., BARACK OBAMA, JIMMY CARTER, AND AL GORE.
Chapter 1
Eager to Learn
Maria Sklodowska was born on November 7, 1867. She was the youngest of five children, with three older sisters and one brother. Her parents were both teachers. Her mother was the principal of a school. Her father taught science. Later, he ran his own schools.
Maria was born in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. Poland didnt really exist as a country at that time. The neighboring countries had taken over Poland and divided it up into three parts. Maria lived in the part that was ruled by Russia.
Russian guards walked the streets where Maria lived, and patrolled the schools where her parents taught. The Russians had strict rules. No one could sing Polish songs. Schools werent allowed to teach Polish history. Students and teachers couldnt even speak Polish! All the classes had to be taught in Russian.
Marias family hated the Russians and hated the rules. Her father was very proud to be Polish. He taught his children to love their country and hate the Russians. When Maria and her friend walked past a Russian statue, they spat on it!
Maria was a wonderful, bright, and curious child. At age four, she loved to stare into a glass case that held her fathers science equipment. She adored her father and listened intently to everything he said. Her father turned every conversation into a lesson. He created games to teach his children geography. He gave them math problems. He read poems aloud. He spoke five languages, and Maria learned to speak them, too.
At school, Maria was the smartest girl in her class. She could recite all the right answers in either Polish or Russian. When the Russian guards werent around, the teachers were sneaky. They taught classes in Polish.
One day a Russian guard came to visit. Quickly, the whole class switched back to speaking Russian. Everyone felt nervous. If the guards found out the truth, they might punish people. They might send them away to a cold, distant place in Russia called Siberia.
The teacher called on Maria to answer questions in Russian for the guard. Maria passed the test brilliantly, but she felt bad for doing it! She felt like a traitor to her country for obeying the Russians.
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