Grade 9 Reading Lesson 20 Biographies – Madame Curie
Madame Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Prize is an annual international award. It is bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.
Let us read this lesson and find out why Madame Curie was honored with the Nobel Prize.
