What are some interesting facts about Marie Curie?

Answer 1

• Marie Curie died of leukemia brought on by her prolonged exposure to radioactivity. The notebooks she used are still radioactive.

• The element curium, discovered in 1944, was named in honor of Marie and her husband, Pierre.
• Marie Curie was the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne in Paris, and the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.

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Marie Curie:

• discovered the element, radium.
• was a co-recipient of the Nobel prize in physics in 1903.
• was the first women to be accepted into the Sorbonne University, in Paris.
• won her second Nobel prize in chemistry in 1911.
• was the first women to win 2 Nobel prizes.
• was born on November 7, 1867.
• died in 1934.
• was the youngest of five children. She had 1 older brother and 3 older sisters.
• discovered her 2nd element and named it polonium, after her birth country, Poland.
• was 10 years old when her oldest sister died an 2 years later her mother also passed away.
• father died in Warsaw.
• notebooks are still radioactive.
• favorite game was a game her family called block wars.
• married Pierre Curie.
• received a total of 19 degrees.