Chemistry Marie Curie
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- Marie Curie
- Originally named Maria Sklodowska was born November 7, 1967 in Warsaw, Poland. She fell in love with sciences at an early age, as her father was a science teacher.
- When Marie was 11, her mother died, and with her father not being able to support her, she was left with no chance for education.
- In 1891, she had a huge stroke of luck, and her older sister, Brony, offered her a place to stay and a chance to attend university with her in Paris. Marie seized this opportunity and moved to Paris, where she attended Sorbonne University, where she studied physics and mathematics.
- It was in Paris, in 1894, that she met Pierre Curie – a scientist who was working in the city – and who she married a year later. It was also around this time that she adopted the French spelling of her name – Marie.The Curies became researchers at the School of Chemistry and Physics, in Paris, France where they began their work into invisible rays given off by uranium.
- Marie surpassed her husband as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and following the death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, becoming the first woman to hold this position.
- The discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired Marie to further explore this topic. Marie, through the use of radium, as well as helping suffering during World War using X-rays to find bullets.
- He had shown that the rays were able to pass through solid matter, fog and photographic film and caused air to conduct electricity.
- Marie's work is reflected in all of the awards bestowed upon her. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world. She is more known for her 2 Nobel Peace Prizes; one in physics in 1903, and the other in chemistry in 1911.
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