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Marie Curie Biography
From Warsaw to the Sorbonne, the Polish-Born Physicist Who Named Radioactivity, Co-Discovered Polonium and Radium, Won Two Nobel Prizes and Took X-Ray Cars to the Front in World War IBy Imad Muratspahic
Length2h 49m
About this audiobook
A young woman from Russian-ruled Warsaw, barred from the university in her own city, arrives in Paris with almost no money. Within seven years she has named a new phenomenon, helped discover two new elements and begun the toil in a leaking shed that will bring her a Nobel Prize. Marie Curie Biography tells her whole life in a clear, readable narrative for general readers. It is a short biography of one person, not a physics textbook, not a children's picture book and not a general history of radioactivity or of the war years. It follows Maria Skłodowska from a family of teachers in Warsaw to the Sorbonne, through a marriage that was also a research partnership with Pierre Curie, through grief, scandal and a second Nobel Prize, to the wartime X-ray cars and the institute she built. Inside, you'll discover: Written for the curious reader who wants the person behind the famous name, this biography keeps the science simple, the sources honest and the story moving from the first chapter to the last.
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GenreHistory
Length2 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Marie Curie Biography
2Important Notice
3Before There Was a Word for It
4Chapter 1: A Girl in Russian Warsaw
5Chapter 2: A Bargain Between Sisters
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6Chapter 3: Winter in the Latin Quarter
7Chapter 4: A Marriage of Two Scientists
8Chapter 5: Something Stronger Than Uranium
9Chapter 6: The Shed and the Sacks of Ore
10Chapter 7: The Glowing Tube and the First Nobel Prize
11Chapter 8: Rain on the Rue Dauphine
12Chapter 9: November 1911: Scandal and a Second Nobel Prize
13Chapter 10: The Little Curies at the Front
14Chapter 11: A Gram of Radium From America
15Chapter 12: The Last Years and the Long Half-Life
16What the Glow Left Behind
17Quick Reference: Timeline, Who's Who, Glossary and Myths Versus Facts
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