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Notes and Links
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Marya Sklodowska's Birth
Madame Marie Curie was born Marya "Manya" Sklodowska, in the city of Warsaw, Poland. The image shows Marya (on the right) and her sister Hela (on the left).
Link:
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Lifetime
Marie Curie's lifetime. In this timeline I will show major events in her life time. She died at age 67 from aplastic anemia brought on by her long exposure to radiations. -
Death of Zozia
Marya's oldest sister Zozia dies of typhus in late January of 1876. At the time, Marya was 9 years old. It was her first experience with death. The picture shows the Sklodowska children. Zozia is the tallest girl to the left of the photograph.
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Death of Marya's mother
Marya's mother dies of tuberculosis on the 9th of may, 1878. The already economically unstable family undergoes a greater economic struggle as Marya's father is left to care and income for the whole family. The picture shows Marya's mother, Mme Bronislawa Sklodowska.
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Marya Leaves Poland for paris, France
Marya leaves to study at the Sorbonne in paris, taking a degree in physics and mathematics. This is the beggining of a new life for her. The photo shows a map of paris city in the 1890's.
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Marya Meets Pierre Curie
Marya meets Pierre Curie, a professor in Physics. They soon fall in love. The photograph show Marya Sklodowska and Pierre Curie.
Link: http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/harvard-education-partnerships-mba-opinions-high-five-jay-light.html -
Marya Becomes Marie
Marya Skoldowska marries Pierre Curie and becomes madame Marie Skoldowska-Curie. The photo shows Marie and Pierre Curie shortly after their wedding. Link: http://chagalov.tumblr.com/post/24936474202/pierre-and-marie-curie-shortly-after-their -
Irene Curie
Marie brings her first daughter, Irene Curie, into the world. Irene would follow her mother's studies in chemistry and radioactivity and be awarded a nobel prize for her and her husband's synthesis of radioactive elements.
the photograph shows Irene Curie. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irène_Joliot-Curie -
Marie and Pierre discover a new element
Togheter, Marie and Pierre Curie discover the radioactive element polonium from within a piece of pitchblende. Their studies were not acknowledged, as they could not extract weighable amounts of Polonium to prove their studies. Later on, She and another scientist (Antoine Henri Becquerel) shared a nobel prize award for their studies of X rays and radioactivity. -
Discovering Radium
Mary and Pierre announce the discovery of a new radioactive element, Radium. The picture shows the structure of the element Radium.
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Doctor of Science degree
Marie gains her doctor of science degree at the Sorbonne. She succeeds her husband as heads of the physics laboratory. -
Eve Curie
Eve curie is born. She will grow to become a writer, and write her mother's biography. The photo shows Eve Curie.
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Pierre's death
Pierre Curie dies on a rainy night, when he is hit by a moving cart and slips under it, fracturing his skull.
Following Pierre's death, Marie takes his place as professor of general physics in the faculty of sciences. The photograph shows Pierre Curie.
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Marie is awarded another Nobel Prize
Marie is awarded the 1911 nobel prize in chemistry for her discovery and studies of the elements radium and polonium. The photofraph shows the diploma Marie Curie received with her nobel prize.
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Curie laboratory
Marie becomes director of the Curie Laboratory (founded in 1914 in the radium institute of the university of paris. -
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Marie's actions during WWI
After germany invades France, Marie starts looking for ways to use radiations and science as a way to help. Covincing the rich to give up their cars, she turns hundreds of them into radiation stations to cure wounds and releive pain of wounded soliders. She also put the radioactive gas radon into small tubes which could then be implanted in the area of wounds so the radiation could destroy the dead tissue. Her medicinal studies of radiation sparked medical research using radiation. -
Marie's Death
Marie Curie dies of aplastic anemia on this date. Her studies and pioneering influence future scientific generations to study ways to cure deadly diseases such as cancer through radiation, as well as new methods and cures for diseases and wounds. Her daughter, Eve Curie, went on to write a biography of her late mother, called "Madame Curie, a biography".
The photograph shows Marie in her old age. Link:http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/inspiring-women-marie-curie -
Informational Links
The following links lead to sources for this timeline:
http://mariecurie.science.gouv.fr/portrait/portrait1_1.php
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html
