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The Radium Woman

by Eleanor Doorly

Carnegie Medal · 1939 · Winner
Children'sISBN 9780435120078

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Carnegie Medal for Writing1939Winner

About the Author

Victoria Eleanor Louise Doorly (1880–1950) was a British author of children's books, best known for her biographies of scientists including The Insect Man (1936) on Jean Henri Fabre, The Microbe Man (1938) on Louis Pasteur, and The Radium Woman (1939) on Marie Curie, for which she won the Carnegie Medal.Eleanor Doorly

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