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Born November 7, 1867
Marie Curie was a Polish-born physicist, born November 7, 1867. She was the youngest of five children and at birth given the name of Marya Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland. Her Father Wladislaw Boguska Sklodowska was a teacher of physics and math. Who taught Marie physics and chemistry, while her mother Bronislava Boguska Sklodowska was a headmaster at a privet school. This is significant because Marie later goes on to win a two Noble Prize, in physics and in chemistry.
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The 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was finalized Febuary 3, 1870. This gave the right for African-American males to vote. This is significant because it later lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act focused on "overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that denied blacks their right to vote under the 15th Amendment".
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Marie moves to Paris
In 1890 Marie's older sister Bronya was working in Paris as a doctor and invited Marie to stay with her. In September of 1891 Marie moved in with her sister and enrolled in classes at the Sorbonnie in Paris, as a physics student. A few year later in 1893 Marie earned her master’s degree in physics, first in her class. She then earned her degree in math in 1894 as second in her class. This is significant because it lead to Marie starting to work on her first research project.
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Marie and Pierre got married
After Maries schooling she began a research project in "the measurement of the magnetic properties of various steel alloys". April of 1894, during her project, Marie had no laboratory to work at so she was then introduced to Pierre Curie. At the school of physics and Chemistry at the University of Paris Marie helped Pierre giving him support to publish "his research on magnetism as a doctoral thesis". This then lead to their marriage in 1935.
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Inspiration to find cemicals
In 1897 Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. This inspired Marie and Pierre Curie to invest more into this finding. Marie started alone on the project focusing on the element Uranium, after Becquerel found out "that rays emitted by uranium could pass through metal". In the summer of 1898 while working on her project, Pierre asked if he could then join in on the scientific discover and she was more than open, making them a partners.
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Discovery of new elements
In 1898 Maries focused on the mineral pitchblende, which, contained uranium salts. In her discovery she found that the mineral had far more radioactivity than expected. She concluded "that pitchblende contained a small amount of an unknown radiating element". Becoming close to discovering a new element Marie joins Pierre in his research. This is significant because it leads to the couples discover of two elements; polonium and radium.
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Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers made their first flight in 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright were American born inventors. They achieved the goal of flying "the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight." This is significant because it lead to them flying there first realistic airplane two years later.
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Marie won her first Noble Prize
In December of 1903 Marie Curie, Pierre Currie, and Henri Becquerel was pronoused with the Nobel Prize in Physics. Henri Becquerel was awarded for being the original descoverer of radioactivity. While Marie and Pierre Currie were awarded for there research and all of them for the overall discovery scientific field of radiation.This event is significant because Marie became the first women to win the Noble Prize.
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Pierres death
August 19, 1906 the 46 year old Pierre Currie was run down by a horse drawn carriage and istantly killed. At this time pierre was a faculty member at the sorbonne. This is significant because Marie took over Pierres membership spot. This makes her the first women to be the universities faculty member.
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Second Noble Prize
It started in 1898 when she first discovered the element radium but in 1910 she finially for the first time found an image of the element as a pure substance. In 1911 Marie Curie won her second Noble Prize in Chemistry. She was awarded it for the “discovery of the elements radium and polonium, the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". This is significant beacause she becomes the first women to win two Noble Prizes.
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The Titanic
April 15, 1912 the Titanic hit an iceburg in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. This resulted in over 1,500 people lossing there life. Many events taken in the prosess of trying to get people off the ship were not well followed. Many of the safty boats used to get people off the boat were not even half full. This is significant because it helped to lead to more safty concerend be fixed for future events.
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Herny Ford
December 1, 1913 Henry Ford created the First moving assembly line. He instaled the moving assembly line to make cars in a shorter amount of time. He minamised the time taken to make a car from 12 hours to about 2 1/2 hours. This is significant because it "revolutionized the automobile industry and the concept of manufacturing worldwide".
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Fight for Cancer
In 1932 Marie Curie founded the 'Radium Institute' in Paris. The institution was built to work with cancer reseach and treatments. When war on declared on France by German her Institution was put on hold. Curie then refoucused her attention on the war and helping soldiers. She then took her moble x-ray machine to military hospitals in order to help surgents find bullets and other strapnal in soldiers. This is significant because it helped to save many soldiers lives.
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression began in October of 1929 after the stock market crashed puting millions of investers in a panic. Causeing the economy to drop dramaticly and resulting in many jobs to be lost and many people uneployed. This is significant because it resulted in over 20% of the American population to become unemployed.
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia earhart is an American born pilot. In 1923 Amelia became the 16th women to ever get a pilot license. On May 20, 1932 Earhart left from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland on a flight around the world. On May 22 after running into some difficulty Earhart landed at Hanworth Airfield in London. This is significant because she became the first women to Fly solo Across the Atlantic.
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Died
Marie died July 4, 1934 in Sallanches, France. After working with radioactive materials for much of her life Marie died of aplastic anemia a result of the radioactivity. Marie also died with her daughter following in her footsteps. Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric Joliot worked on new radioactive elements. This is significant because they both earned together the Noble Prize in Chemistry, in 1935.
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