Something Out of Nothing
Marie Curie and Radium
by Carla Killough McClafferty

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• Awards: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Nonfiction (2007), NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book (2007)
• Format: hardcover, 144 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Genres: biography, science, childrens, history
• Author: Carla Killough McClafferty
• Release date: March 21, 2006
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9780374380366 (0374380368)

About The Book

Marie Curie’s story has fascinated and inspired young readers

decades. The poor Polish girl who worked eight years to be able

to afford to attend the Sorbonne in Paris became one of the

most important scientists of her day, winning not one but two

Nobel Prizes. Her life is a fascinating one, filled with hard work,

humanitarianism, and tragedy. Her work with her husband,

Pierre — the study of radioactivity and the discovery of the

elements radium and polonium — changed science forever. But

she is less well known for her selfless efforts during World War

to establish mobile X-ray units so that wounded French soldiers

could get better care faster. When she stood to profit greatly

from her scientific work, she chose not to, making her methods

and findings known and available to all of science. As a result,

this famous woman spent most of her life in need of money,

often to buy the very elements she discovered.

Marie Curie’s life and work are given a fresh telling, one that

also explores the larger picture of the effects of radium in world

culture, and its exploitation and sad misuse.

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