Marie Curies Search for Radium

by Margaret Price

Today s nuclear age is a result of an extraordinary woman s search for radium. Meet Marie Curie in this fully illustrated exploration of science and see how her curiosity led to the discovery that would change the world.

Adventure in science with these other books in the Science Stories series by Beverly Birch: Benjamin Franklin s Adventures with Electricity, Marconi s Battle for Radio, and Pasteur s Fight against Microbes.

Paperback

First published July 15, 2001

About the author

Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English at Spelman College and the author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (University of Michigan Press, 2011)."