Marie Curie

Marie had Five siblings, Zofia (born 1862), Józef (1863), Bronisława (1865) and Helena (1866).

Her husband, Pierre Curie, worked with Marie Curie when they discovered Polonium. The Curies also discovered that Thorium, discovered in 1829 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, emits radiation.

Well, when she was brought up Poland was under Russian rule. Her parents were Polish patriots and it got them into a bit of trouble. Maries father had a very hard time finding work, and her mother died. She had to work at 16 as a governess to pay for her sisters education and when she finally reached Sorbonne Iniversity, worked in terrible conditions. Also, when she discovered radium, most scientists didn't believe her so she had to prove it. Later on, rumors were made up about her breaking up her sisters and husbands marrige.

Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium and made huge inroads in the research of radioactivity and it's benefits. As a note of interest, both her and her husband Pierre's journals are still radioactive.

Marie Curie liked butter bread.

ya it was in so many if there was not marie curie or becquerel we could have suffered with so many diseases in this life so many troubles.Radioactivity is dangerous and know thanks to those scientist we now know how to defend ourselves against radioactive waves or particles in our body.

because she did

Oh... not the Nobel Prize for Chemistry then.....

Marie Curie actually won two Nobel Peace Prizes. In 1903, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in physics. In 1911, she was awarded a second Nobel Peace Prize, this time in chemistry. She was not only the first woman to receive two Nobel Peace Prizes, but she was also the very first person ( no woman or man had ever received two) to receive two prizes.

Marie Curie, (1867-1934)

>>>She is a Polish physicist and chemist that ..made researches on radioactivity,dicovering with her husbandd Pierre Curie (1859-1906) polonium and radium....


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When I saw a picture of her in work, she was just wearing a long draped black skirt to the ankle and a black high neck shirt with ruffles on the sleeves and and shoulder and normal flat black shoes.

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being a responsibla and hardworking through her work and experiments like her invention of pitchblend........:):)

Marie Curie has 2 daughters, Irène Joliot-Curie & Ève Curie.

Her bio mentions she got a Ph.D nothing about MA or MS. Traditionally if someone does a Ph.D program without the master's midway a master's is granted. The time spent for each degree is the same.

Marie Curie attended a boarding school called the Flying University while she was living in Warsaw, Poland. She later studied at a gymnasium, which is similar to a high school, in the Russian Partition of Poland.

Marie Curie was one of the most important contributors to the field of science. Her study of minerals in the geological field led to the discovery of radium. Her work has given scientists insights into the inner world of the atom, and has helped doctors treat illnesses. Marie was also a humanitarian.Her one of the contribution in Physics experiment

proved that "the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions, and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium. Its intensity is proportional to the quantity of uranium contained in the compound, and depends neither on conditions of chemical combination, nor on external circumstances, such as light or temperature".Radium was also used for experiments on atoms.the powerful energy that showed up in radioactivity was a fundamental property of every atom of matter.Thus, these were some of her contributions in Physics.

The most likely cause of Marie Curie's leukemia was her prolonged exposure to high levels of ionizing radiation while conducting her pioneering research on radioactivity. This exposure significantly increased her risk of developing the disease.

Yes, Albert Einstein met Marie Curie in 1909 and they were colleagues and friends for nearly 25 years. They attended many scientific conferences together and even took their families on vacation together.

Curie did not discover radiation -- Henri Becquerel did. Curie simply showed that the amount of radiation coming from uranium compounds depended only on the amount of uranium in the sample, not on the chemical make-up of the compound. This strongly suggested that the radiation was coming from the atoms of uranium themselves, a revolutionary idea for its time.

The Curies later found other elements that were radioactive; radium being the most intense of those.

Marie Curie used an invention called the electron.She also used a method that separated different elements in a substance made of 30 minerals called blende to find radium.

Polonium was discovered by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie in 1898.
Radium was discovered by Marie Curie, Pierre Curie and G. Bemont also in 1898.
Studying residues of uranium ores Marie Curie and Pierre Curie found that these residues are more radioactive than uranium; they attributed this radioactivity to unknown elements. They isolated these elements and named these elements polonium and radium.

Polonium was discovered by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie in 1898.

Marie's scientific studies began with the research of a phenomenon for which she later coined the word "radioactivity". Marie worked jointly with Pierre and Henri Becquerel, a French scientist, and in 1903 they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics due to their work with radioactive material and the discovering of its properties. Today radioactivity is used in cancer treatments, molecular biology, modern genetics, as well as the dating of artifacts.

Marie also discovered polonium, which was named after her native land of Poland, and radium in 1898, chemicals which she devoted the rest of her life to studying. Marie discovered how to isolate these elements so that they might be used for useful causes, such as cancer therapy. In addition, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for discovering the method used to isolate pure radium. Marie also developed a process called Curietherapy with the help of Pierre, a process that was used to treat malignant tumors at the time.

Marie Curie studied at the secret "Floating University" in Warsaw, Poland in 1890 and 1891. Then in 1891 she entered the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She earned a Physics degree there in 1893 and then continued on to get a Mathematics degree in 1894.

The Curie point, or Curie temperature, is the temperature at which a magnet loses its magnetic properties. Above this temperature, the magnetic domains within the material become disordered, causing the material to no longer exhibit magnetism.

she showed that the atom was divisible. This was significant as up to that time, from Dalton's theory, atoms were thought to be indivisible. So this was an important step toward understanding the structure of the atom.