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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Marie Curie	Lori Mortensen	Because of her amazing discoveries, Marie Curie became the first woman in history to receive a Nobel Prize for Physics, and today is remembered as one of the most important scientists of all time.	OL11822485W
Radioactivity	Tom McGowen	Discusses discoveries, developments, and scientists in the field of radioactivity, which has revolutionized physics and medicine, with particular emphasis on the work done by the Curies.	OL15964566W
Marie Curie	Mollie Keller	A biography of the Polish-born chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903 for the discovery of radium.	OL15964849W
His pregnancy bargain	Kim Lawrence	It was one night of passion Megan would never forget--Luc Patrick had skillfully taken her and used her...leaving her pregnant with his baby. Nevertheless Megan tracked down the sexy Frenchman and wa…	OL16035271W
Marie Curie	Elizabeth MacLeod	Presents a short biography on the life and career of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and provides information on her discovery of the element radium that helped to unlock the myste…	OL16060489W
Radioactive	Lauren Redniss	Presents the professional and private lives of Marie and Pierre Curie, examining their personal struggles, the advancements they made in the world of science, and the issue of radiation in the modern…	OL16153084W
Marie Curie, pioneer physicist	Carol Greene	A biography of the brilliant scientist whose work with radioactivity caused her death, but gave life to others.	OL1653311W
Contemporary Biographies in Chemistry	Salem Press	Contemporary Biographies in Chemistry is a collection of biographies of "living leaders" in the field of chemistry. A supplement to Salem Press's Careers in Science series, a career-focused series ex…	OL17101830W
Women in chemistry careers	Jetty Kahn	Describes the careers of five women working in the field of chemistry: Ann Crespi, Molly Fiedler, Linda Griffith, Lynda Jordan, and Malathy Nair.	OL19242514W
Adventurous spirit	Ethlie Ann Vare	A biography of Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the American home economics movement, and first professional woman chemist.	OL1950755W
Searching for the soror mystica	Robin L. Gordon	"Early scientists, or natural philosophers as they were known, did not seek knowledge in the disconnected way modern academics tend to do. They were interested in how the universe worked, which meant…	OL19978549W
Gertrude Elion	Stephanie St. Pierre	A biography of the chemist who, in recognition of her important discoveries and inventions, was the first woman inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.	OL2029914W
The Mysterious Element	Pam Robson	Super Scientists	OL2628622W
Marie Curie	Margaret Poynter	A biography of Marie Curie, who won two Nobel Prizes for discovering radium and polonium.	OL2693675W
The cupcake caper	Kelle Z. Riley	"Dr. Bree Watson (aka Gabriella Catherine Mayfield-Watson) is comfortable solving chemistry problems. She isn't comfortable finding her boss dead and being a suspect in his poisoning. Now she's juggl…	OL28953448W
Marie Curie	Louis Sabin	A biography of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband, was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium.	OL4090507W
Marie Curie, brave scientist	Keith Brandt,Karen Milone,Brandt, Keith	A brief biography focusing on the youth of the scientist who twice received the Nobel Prize for her work with radium.	OL4090564W
Avril Crump and her amazing clones	Angela Woolfe	Dr. Avril Crump, a chubby, balding, and lonely research scientist at Leviticus Laboratories, befriends three strange clones that were created during a failed laboratory experiment, but when she disco…	OL5711703W
His Pregnancy Bargain	Kim Lawrence	It was one night of passion Megan would never forget--Luc Patrick had skillfully taken her and used her...leaving her pregnant with his baby. Nevertheless Megan tracked down the sexy Frenchman and wa…	OL5809048W
Marie Curie	Kathleen Krull	Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two—in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.	OL97658W