Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

March 9, 2005

A Curie-ous Tale

Marie Curie discovered two elements and won two Nobel Prizes for her pioneering studies on radioactivity. An online exhibit at the American Institute of Physics' history site depicts how she displayed her ardor and brilliance in many other facets of life as well, such as organizing and equipping a radiological medicine unit for French forces in World War I.

Go to: www.aip.org/history/curie

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