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Marie Curie Into the World
On November 7, 1867 famous Marie Curie entered the world. Though she wasn't named Marie Curie and she wasn't famous. She was just an ordinary baby. But she was born Marya Sklodowska. Nobody would have guessed that a lot of years later she would become so famous. -
Marie Curie Was Born
On November 7th 1867 Marie Curie was born. She was born in Warsaw, Vistula Land, Russian Empire -
Young But Smart
In this year Marya was on her way to succes she won a gold medal for best student at age 15 when she was in High School. -
I study on the university
He studied at 4 universities, including Paris, in 1905 he got a degree. -
Married Life
On July 26,1895 Marie Sklodowska became Marie Curie. When she fell in love and married her partner Pierre Curie. The man she was doing experiments with. -
The doctorate and new chemical elements
After getting the second degree, his next challenge was the doctorate.M The first step was the choice of the subject of his thesis. After discussing it with her husband, she decided to focus on the work of physicist Henri Becquerel, who had discovered that uranium salts emitted rays of unknown nature.10 This work was related to the recent discovery of X-rays by physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, although the properties behind that phenomenon were not yet understood -
New Element
In july 1898 after studying uranium for years in her lab Marie Curie and her husdand created a new element called Polonium.
Thy named it Polonium in honor of native Poland. -
Radium
On 26 December 1898 the Curies announced the existence of a second element, which they named "radium." -
Nobel Prize
Marie curie was the first women to win a Nobel Prize.In 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel." -
Becoming Famous
A lot of good things came out of discovering elements. A lot of good things came to the Curie's after their discovery. Including a doctor of science degree for Marie. Marie and Pierre also won a Nobel Prize in Physics plus 70,000 francs. Also Pierre was made professor in Physics at the Sorbonne.But the best gift for the Curie's was another baby girl whom they named Eve. -
Husband Died
Pierre was killed on April 19th 1906. He was walking across the Rue Dauphine in heavy rain, he was struck by a horse-drawn vehicle and fell under its wheels and his skull was fractured. -
Firsts
Marie Curie was the first person to win two nobel Prizes. -
Nobel Prizes:
Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911 -
World War
During the world war Marie Curie pushed for the use of mobile radiography units, which came to be popularly known as petites Curies. these where used for the treatment of wounded soilders. they where tubes of radium emanation, a colorless, radioactive gas given off by radium, later identified as radon. These are now known today as X-Ray machines. -
What Radium Was Used For
Radium was used in self-luminous paints for watches, nuclear panels, aircraft switches, clocks, and instrument dials. Radium was still used for some dials in 1950. This is important to know about because it impacts the world of science around us. -
Health Issues
During the 1930s it was found that workers' exposure to radium by handling luminescent paints caused serious health effects which included sores, anemia and bone cancer. This use of radium was stopped soon afterward. This important to the world because know we know that radium can kill you or make you seriously sick. -
Marie Curie´s Death
Marie Curie, the discoverer of polonium and radio, a day like today but from 1934 died in Paris -
Why did he die?
víctima de una anemia aplásica. La mayoría de biógrafos y expertos indicaron que su fallecimiento se debía a su trabajo, ya que estuvo expuesta a las radiaciones de esas sustancias cancerígenas sin protección -
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Early years in France
At the end of 1891 he left for France.31 In Paris, Maria spent time in a lodging with her sister and brother-in-law before renting a loft in the Latin Quarter, near the university, and continued her studies in physics, chemistry and mathematics at the University of Paris -
Irene Curie
Marie Curie had her first daughter Irene Curie.
