Marie Curie
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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About Her:
- Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in 1867.
- Her nationality is Polish.
- She graduated The University of Paris at 15.
- Worked as a governess to support her sister for a while.
- She is also known as the First Lady of Science.
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Her contributions:
- She coined the name for radioactivity.
- She also discovered the elements polonium and radium.
- She found that the harmful properties of x-rays helped kill tumors.
- She successfully isolated pure radium and determined their atomic weight.
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Recognition
- She won two Nobel prizes, and was the first person to do so. One for her discovery of radioactivity,
- One for her discovery of radioactivity, and then another for discovering two elements. Marie was
- the first woman to be awarded in the pantheon. There is an existing cancer care named in her
- honor. After her husband's death she became professeur of general physics in the faculty of s
- Sciences, and the first woman to be in this position. Pres. Hoover gave her 50k to get radium.
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( what )
- Through their experiments, Marie Curie and her husband
- applied isolation by successive chemical reaction.
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