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Ã2016., Sourcebooks Call No: WOMEN'S STUDIES NF MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the story of radium poisoning to young American women during WWI from the paint used on watch dials, and the ensuing legal consequences that occured as a result of these work health hazards.
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By Moore, Kate[2018]., Sourcebooks Call No: HI-INT 363.1 MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously ill. As the fatal poison of the radium took hold, they found themselves embroiled in one of America's biggest scandals and a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights. The Radium Girls explores the strength of extraordinary women in the face of almost impossible circumstances and the astonishing legacy they left behind.
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By Moore, Kate[2020]., Juvenile, Sourcebooks eXplore Call No: 363.1 MOO Edition: Young readers' edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Now adapted for young readers! The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice"--
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-- Radioactivityc2007., Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: GR B CURIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of scientist Marie Curie's discovery of radioactivity, and her work with her husband Pierre to isolate the chemical element of radium--research that had terrible consequences for their health. Presented in graphic format.
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c1995., Chelsea House Call No: Biography CURIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Science discoveriesSummary Note: Details the life and work of Marie Curie from early childhood to the discovery of radium and her two Nobel Prizes.
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2006, Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
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2006., Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: 921 CURIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
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2006., Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Marie Curie, discussing her childhood in Poland, schooling in France, discovery of the element radium, efforts to create mobile X-ray units during World War I, and eventual death from radium poisoning.
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2006., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: B CURIE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Traces the life and work of Marie Curie. Discusses her rise to fame though she chose not to make huge profits from her discoveries. Explores the effects of radium in world culture including its exploitation and consequences of its misuse.
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-- Marie Curie2006., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Marie Curie, discussing her childhood in Poland, schooling in France, discovery of the element radium, efforts to create mobile X-ray units during World War I, and eventual death from radium poisoning.