1867-1934
Informational:
Marie Curie:
Informational:
Marie Curie was born on November 7th, 1867. Her real name was Manya Sklodovski, but she changed it when she moved to Paris with her sister to study at Sorbonne, in order to fit in better at the French school, she changed her name to Marie. She earned masters degrees in both mathematics and physics, and was the first woman to teach at Sorbonne.
She met a young scientist by the name Pierre Curie, and they eventually married. Together they discovered radioactivity and won the Nobel peace prize for physics in 1903.
In 1906, Pierre Curie, after years of exposure to radiation, was tragically run over by a horse drawn carriage. Marie continued her work and research and succeeded in isolating radium. She won the 1911 Nobel prize for chemistry. She was the first woman to ever win a Nobel peace prize. Upon the discovery that radiation killed healthy human cells, she began using it to kill diseased human cells, so during world war one, she invented the first X-ray. She died of Leukemia in 1934, and the Radium Institute renamed itself The Curie Institute, to honor her memory.
Impact of her research:
She revolutionized treatments for some diseases, and the medical field all together! Can you imagine a world without the X-ray? She also made Nuclear bombs possible, that being the downside to her research.
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