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Marie Curie Project
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Marie Curie
By: Uyen Phan & Lamya Shusmi
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Introduction
Biography
- Polish-French physicist and chemist with pioneering scientific research and discoveries
- Championed further research in nuclear physics and chemistry
- Worked jointly with her husband, Pierre Curie for her early researches
Pioneering Research
Pioneering Research
- Inspired by Henri Becquerel's
discovery of radioactivity
- Pitchblende
- Much of her research contributed to advancements in medical field
- Research in radioactivity set the stage for the treatment of cancer via radiation
The Nobel Prize
1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
- recognized her joint contributions to research in spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel
Honors
1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- recognized her research in radioactivity and discovery of radium and polonium
Early Life
Death
- Youngest out of five children
- Her father taught Mathematics and Physics, & brought home unused laboratory equipment for his children to inspire her to purse a career in science
- After Curie's mother and sister passed away from illness early in her life, she ended up giving up her faith of Catholicism
- Curie worked as both a home tutor, as well as a governess in her early years, while attending Flying University
- Curie died in France on July 4th 1934 at the age of 66
- Cause of death was from the amount of radiation she had come in contact with
- Curie was buried next to her husband Pierre in a cemetery in Sceaux, France
- After her death, her book on Radioactivity was also published in 1935.
Birth/Death
Birth
- On July 25th, 1895, Curie married Pierre Curie
- Worked jointly with her husband to achieve the discovery of Radium & Polonium in 1898
- Curie also gave birth to two daughters, one in 1897 and one in 1904
- Throughout WWI, Curie started her work on X-rays with her oldest daughter, Irene
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw (now Poland) on November 7th, 1867
Middle Life
Career
Academic Career
- Secondary education at Russian
lycée
- Attended Warsaw "floating university with informal classes in secret
- 1891 - went on to study chemistry and physics at Sorbonne University in Paris
- Graduated with master's degrees in physics and math
- Received scientific training in Warsaw
Professional Career
- During WWI, Curie participated in the development of X-rays alongside her daughter Irene, in order to examine the soldiers
- In the latter years of her professional career, Curie gave lectures in many different countries, some of them being: Belgium, Brazil, Spain, and Czechoslovakia
Professional
Career
Discovery
- Coined the term, "radioactivity"
- Discovered radium and polonium
Discovery
- Used her discovery of radium as the gamma ray source in x-ray machines
Legacy
Legacy
- The first woman ever to win a Noble Peace Prize
- The first person to discover elements Radium and Polonium
- The Curie Institute
- Championed the use of x-rays and paved the way for cancer treatment via radiation
- WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Inspiration
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less"
-Marie Curie
Citations
Resources
A&E Networks Television. (2021, October 8). Marie Curie.
Biography.com. Retrieved November 18, 2021, from https://www.biography.com/scientist/marie-curie.
Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Marie Curie.
Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 18, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Curie.
The nobel prize in chemistry 1911. NobelPrize.org. (n.d.).
Retrieved November 18, 2021, from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/ceremony-speech/.